Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira

(Fig. 119)

Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira, 2008: 116, figs 8–14, 37.

Diagnosis. Medium size (about 4.0 mm length). Antenna brown, except basal 1/4 of postpedicel grayish. Thorax dark brown to black, with yellow dot on postpronotal lobe and postalar callus; pleura brown to dark brown; scutum high and rounded; prosternum narrow. Abdomen slender and dark brown. Legs elongate and slender; fore leg with coxa, trochanter and femur dark yellow, tibia and tarsus brown; mid leg dark yellow, except tarsomeres 3–5 light brown; hind leg with coxa, trochanter and femur yellow, tibia and tarsus brown; hind tibia clavate and hind tarsomere 1 enlarged. Wing sub-hyaline with elongate brown pterostigma filling up apex of cell r1.

Examined material. HOLOTYPE ♂ (INPA): BRASIL, Amazonas, [Novo Airão], P[arque] N[acional do] Jaú, Ig[arapé] do Gerlei, 01°57′00″S–61°49′00″W, 23–28.viii.1995 / Arm[adilha] Malaise, J. A. Rafael & Vidal / Holótipo, Syneches jauensis Ale-Rocha & Vieira [red label]. PARATYPES. idem (2 ♀, INPA).

Geographical distribution. Brazil (Amazonas) (Fig. 119).

Comments. This species is very similar to S. tomentosus Smith, 1962, from Southeast of Brazil, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the shorter pterostigma and features of the male terminalia (Ale-Rocha & Vieira 2008).