A remarkable long-antennate new species of Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander (Diptera, Empididae, Empidinae) from the Brazilian Amazon

Abstract

ABSTRACT Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander, 1901 is a Neotropical genus of dance flies with 24 described species. Here we describe and illustrate a new species collected in the Amazonian Brazilian states of Amapá, Amazonas, and Pará, L. amazonida sp. nov. The new species is mainly characterized by its extra long antennae and by the presence of dorsal and ventral pennate setae on the scape and postpedicel.

Keywords

• canopy
• dance flies
• Empidini
• Empidoidea
• empidid
• taxonomy