Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira

Soares, Matheus M. M., Freitas-Silva, Rafael A. P. & Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, 2021, Review of Brazilian species of Syneches Walker (Diptera, Hybotidae, Hybotinae), with description of ten new species, Zootaxa 5049 (1), pp. 1-84 : 40-41

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Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira View in CoL

( Figs 25A–E View FIGURE 25 , 50 View FIGURE 50 )

Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira, 2008: 116 View in CoL , figs 8–14, 37; Menezes & Ale-Rocha, 2016: 420 View Cited Treatment , fig 119 (key, distr.). Type locality: Parque Nacional do Jaú, Amazonas, Brazil.

Diagnosis. Medium size (3.6 mm) ( Fig. 25A View FIGURE 25 ). Antenna brown ( Fig. 25C View FIGURE 25 ). Scutum rounded, as broad as mesopleuron in lateral view, dark brown ( Fig. 25B View FIGURE 25 ). Legs slender, with coxae, trochanters, fore and mid femora, fore tarsomeres 1–5 dark yellow, mid tibia and mid tarsomeres 1–2 yellow, otherwise brown ( Figs 25A, D View FIGURE 25 ). Wing hyaline, membrane brownish smoky; pterostigma long, oval, 2.5 x longer than wide, brown and fulfilling the apex of cell r 1; second section of M 1 longer than crossvein r-m ( Fig. 25E View FIGURE 25 ). Distal margin of hypandrium with one wide and truncate protuberance.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ ( INPA) labelled: “ BRASIL, Amazonas , Pq [ Parque ] N [ Nacional ] [do] Jaú , Ig [ Igarapé ] Miratucu , Ig [Igarapé] do Gerlei, 01°57′00″S 61°49′00″W, 23–28.vii.1995 ” “Arm [armadilha] Malaise, J.A. Rafael & J. Vidal ” “Holótipo, Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira ” [red label] GoogleMaps . Holotype condition: good; not dissected.

Distribution. Brazil (Amazonas) ( Fig. 50 View FIGURE 50 ). Syneches jauensis is known only from the Amazon biome.

Remarks. Syneches jauensis differs from all other Brazilian species of Syneches by the slender and predominantly dark yellow to brown legs, pterostigma filling the apex of cell r 1 and distal margin of the hypandrium with one wide and truncate protuberance.