Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha

(Figs 26A–E, 49)

Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha, 2018: 638, figs 4–8, 11, 16. Type locality: Piracuruca, Piauí, Brazil.

Diagnosis. Small size (3.0 mm) (Fig. 26A). Antenna dark brown (Fig. 26C). Scutum rounded, as broad as mesopleuron in lateral view, dark brown, covered with reddish brown pruinescence (Fig. 26B). Hind femur slender, without spiniform bristles (Fig. 26D); legs with dorsal small black spot at apex of hind femur, fore tarsomeres 1–4 brown, tarsomere 5 of all legs dark brown, otherwise yellow (Figs 26A, D). Wing hyaline; pterostigma inconspicuous; second section of M 1 2 x longer than crossvein r-m (Fig. 26E).

Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂ (CZMA) labelled: “ Brasil, (PI) [Piauí], Piracuruca, P [Parque] N [Nacional] de Sete Cidades, Posto do ICMBio, 04°05′57″S 41°42′34″W ” “Varredura, 08–12.ii.2013, F. Limeira de Oliveira, J.A. Rafael, J.T. Câmara ” “ HOLOTYPE, Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha ” . Holotype condition: good; not dissected.

Distribution. Brazil (States of Maranhão and Piauí) (Fig. 49). Syneches limeirai is known only from the Caatinga and Cerrado biomes.

Remarks. Syneches limeirai is different from all other Brazilian species of Syneches by the following combination of characters: body color predominantly dark brown, wing hyaline with pterostigma inconspicuous and distal margin of hypandrium forming two wide triangular lobes (ref. Soares & Ale-Rocha 2018, fig. 4).