Galinkin & Rafael, 2008 : 521 Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012 : 14 Revision of the genus Amazunculus Rafael (Diptera: Pipunculidae), with description of six new species Marques, Dayse W. A. Skevington, Jeffrey H. Rafael, José A. Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-08 4577 3 439 472 CKMW Galinkin & Rafael Galinkin & Rafael [151,718,1442,1468] Insecta Pipunculidae Amazunculus GBIF Animalia Diptera 13 452 Arthropoda species deargentatus   Figs 78–92     Amazunculus deargentatus  Galinkin & Rafael, 2008: 521, figs 12–13;  Rodriguez & Rafael, 2012: 14; Marques & Rafael, 2018.   Redescription. Antenna( Fig. 80). Postpedicel light brown with obtuse apex. Thorax( Figs 78–79). Mesopleuron dark brown to black, brown pruinose; laterotergite grey pruinose. Mediotergite brown pruinose. Legs ( Fig. 78) dark brown, except apices of trochanters and femora, and basal halves of tibiae yellow; tarsi darker; femora with grey pruinescence on posterior face. Wing( Fig. 81). Length 8.2 mm. LW/MWW = 3.5. LTC/LFC = 1.3. Membrane entirely light brown infuscated. Abdomen( Fig. 79). Dark brown, all tergites with bands of grey pruinescence posterolaterally. Tergite 6 and sternites 6 and 7 as in Fig. 83. Terminalia. Syntergosternite 8 with moderately large circular membranous area ( Fig. 84). Epandrium brown and slightly inflated ( Fig. 85). Surstyli ( Fig. 85) brown; fused with epandrium, elongated, distinctly projected ventrally towards epandrium, wider dorsally than ventrally in lateral view ( Figs 86–87). Phallic guide ( Figs 88–90) elongated and curved, somewhat conical in dorsal and ventral views ( Figs 88–89), about 1.8× the hypandrium length. Basal processes of phallus inconspicuous, very short, much narrower than hypandrium and far from reaching hypandrium margin. Phallus with apex heavily sclerotized, with two convergent small projections apically ( Fig. 91). Ejaculatory apodeme as in Fig. 92.   FIGURES 67–77.  Amazunculus cordigasterGalinkin & Rafael.Holotype male. 67, Tergites 6, 7 and sternites 6, 7, ventral view; 68, Syntergosternite 8, posterior view; 69, Terminalia, dorsal view; 70, Epandrium and surstyli, dorsal view; 71, Left surstylus, lateral view; 72, Right surstylus, lateral view; 73, Hypandrium, phallic guide and phallus, ventral view; 74, Phallic guide, dorsal view; 75, Hypandrium, phallic guide and phallus, left lateral view; 76, Phallus, ventral view; 77, Ejaculatory apodeme.  Female.Unknown.   Type material.  HOLOTYPE ♂: “ BRASIL, Amazonas, Manaus, R.[eserva] Ducke, [ 2°55'48.7"S, 59°58'30.6" W],  09.ix.1986, Ulysses [Barbosa], Luis [Aquino]” “Holótipo ♂,  Amazunculus deargentatusGalinkin & Rafael” “ DIPT. 519 Hol.[ótipo]” ( INPA) ( Fig. 82).   Holotypecondition. Left postpedicel lost; lower part of head damaged. Right wing detached, mounted on microslide. Terminalia placed in a microvial with glycerin.  Geographical distribution.This species is known only from the typelocality, Amazonas, Brazil( Fig. 182).   Habitat. This species was collected in a reserve located close to Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil), that is covered by typical dryland evergreen tropical forest. 2235579160 1986-09-09 DIPT, INPA Brazil -2.9301946 Amazonas 1 -59.975166 Ducke 15 454 2 2 holotype