Amblycerus manauara Ribeiro-Costa, 2000

Fig. 9 A – G, Table 1

Amblycerus manauara Ribeiro-Costa, 2000: 330–332 (detailed original description, type locality: Amazonas), Ribeiro-Costa 2000: 330,331 (mentioned); Ribeiro-Costa et al. 2018: 551 (catalog); Santos and Ribeiro-Costa 2019: 103 (taxonomy); Romero-Nápoles et al. 2021: 208 (catalog).

Type material.

Holotype • Deposited in USNM, male, with labels: Brasil: Amazonas: [Uypizanga], Rio Negro, ( 14 km de Manaus, Alt. 300 pés); XII. 1941; A. Rabaut leg. (Ribeiro-Costa 2000).

Diagnosis.

One of the easiest species to identify in the group sclerolobii is Amblycerus manauara . It has the most conspicuous character in the male genitalia, the two pairs of sclerites at the AR in the male genitalia (Fig. 9 F) which separates this species from the others that have one pair ( A. kingsolveri, A. marinonii, A. sclerolobii, A. tachigaliae; Figs 7 G, 8 F, 6 H, 10 G) or just a single sclerite ( A. truncatus Ribeiro-Costa, sp. nov., A. falcorostrus Ribeiro-Costa & Morse, sp. nov., A. biacutus Ribeiro-Costa, sp. nov. and A. morsei Ribeiro-Costa, sp. nov.; Figs 2 A, 3 F, 4 F, 5 G).

Distribution.

Brazil (Amazonas-Manaus).

Host plants.

Unknown.