Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha

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 : 41

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( Figs 26A–E View FIGURE 26 , 49 View FIGURE 49 )

Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha, 2018: 638 , figs 4–8, 11, 16. Type locality: Piracuruca , Piauí, Brazil.

Diagnosis. Small size (3.0 mm) ( Fig. 26A View FIGURE 26 ). Antenna dark brown ( Fig. 26C View FIGURE 26 ). Scutum rounded, as broad as mesopleuron in lateral view, dark brown, covered with reddish brown pruinescence ( Fig. 26B View FIGURE 26 ). Hind femur slender, without spiniform bristles ( Fig. 26D View FIGURE 26 ); legs with dorsal small black spot at apex of hind femur, fore tarsomeres 1–4 brown, tarsomere 5 of all legs dark brown, otherwise yellow ( Figs 26A, D View FIGURE 26 ). Wing hyaline; pterostigma inconspicuous; second section of M 1 2 x longer than crossvein r-m ( Fig. 26E View FIGURE 26 ).

Type material. HOLOTYPE ♂ ( CZMA) labelled: “ Brasil, ( PI) [Piauí], Piracuruca, P [Parque] N [Nacional] de Sete Cidades, Posto do ICMBio, 04°05′57″S 41°42′34″W ” “Varredura, 08–12.ii.2013, F. Limeira de Oliveira , J.A. Rafael, J.T. Câmara ” “ HOLOTYPE, Syneches limeirai Soares & Ale-Rocha ” GoogleMaps . Holotype condition: good; not dissected.

Distribution. Brazil (States of Maranhão and Piauí) ( Fig. 49 View FIGURE 49 ). Syneches limeirai is known only from the Caatinga and Cerrado biomes.

Remarks. Syneches limeirai is different from all other Brazilian species of Syneches by the following combination of characters: body color predominantly dark brown, wing hyaline with pterostigma inconspicuous and distal margin of hypandrium forming two wide triangular lobes (ref. Soares & Ale-Rocha 2018, fig. 4).