Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi

Amorim, Dalton De Souza, Oliveira, Sarah Siqueira & Balbi, Maria Isabel P. A., 2008, First Neotropical species of genus Azana (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae), Zootaxa 1937, pp. 67-68 : 67

Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi , n.sp.

Azana atlantica Oliveira & Balbi (in Amorim et al., 2008), nomen nudum.

Diagnosis. Two ocelli, mouthparts reduced, maxillary palpus 1-segmented. Wing fumose brown, slightly darker across the mid of the wing and close to the apex; first section of Rs not sclerotized; M4 entirely absent; A1 scarcely visible. Gonostyle triangular, with a row of spines along the entire inner margin; parameres absent.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, BRAZIL, State of São Paulo, Salesópolis, Estação Biológica de Boracéia, Trilha dos Pilões, 23º 39’ 05.8” S, 45º 53’ 44.6” W, Malaise Trap (“trilha Ponto 4”), 30.iii-02.iv.2001, STP Amarante & eq. cols. Paratypes: 1 ♂, same data as holotype; 1 ♂, same data as holotype, except 23º 39’ 06.3” S, 45º 53’ 48.9” W; 1 ♂, idem, except 23º 39’ 05.1” S, 45º 53’ 51.8” W, 26.ii.2005.

Depository. The holotype and the paratypes are deposited in the Diptera collection of the Museu de Zoologia ( MZSP), São Paulo, Brazil.