Hemerodromia cercusdilatata Camara, Plant & Rafael
Creators: name: Martins, Alana E. S.
name: Câmara, Josenir T.
name: Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Empididae
Hemerodromia
Hemerodromia cercusdilatata

description: Hemerodromia cercusdilatata Câmara, Plant & Rafael
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(Figs 75–84)
Hemerodromia cercusdilatata Câmara, Plant & Rafael, 2014: 214, figs 16–24.
This is the first documented record of this species for the state of Maranhão and, more specifically, for the Maranhão Amazon Rainforest.
Diagnosis. This is a pale species (Fig. 75) with the cercus greatly enlarged, with bluntly pointed apical process incurved with serrate posteroapical margin (Figs 77, 78); epandrium rather inflated basally, narrower and somewhat hook-shaped distally (Figs 79, 80); subepandrial sclerite with two posterior finger-like processes (Fig. 82); hypandrium membranous (Fig. 83).
Female. Unknown.
Material examined. Brazil, MA [= Maranhão] C.[=Centro] N.[=Novo] [do] Maranhão,REBIO-Res.[=Reserva] Biol. [=Biológica] [do] Gurupi. 03°14′01′′S - 46°40′52′′W \ Armadilha [traps] MALAISE (6 m), 01–20.xii.2021, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira & A. Tôrres, cols [=coletores] / PROTAX\ FLO 4248 (1♂, INPA); idem \ FLO 4220 (1♂, CZMA); idem, 01–14.ii.2022, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, A. Tôrres & E.S. Pessoa, cols / PROTAX\ FLO 5271 (pinned, terminalia in glass microvial, good condition: 1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5275 (pinned, terminalia in glass microvial, good condition: 1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5423 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5435 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5277 (1♂, INPA); idem \ FLO 5257 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5265 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5434 (1♂, MPEG); idem \ FLO 5258 (1♂, MPEG); idem \ FLO 5266 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5422 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5421 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5432 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5270 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5433 (1♂, MZUSP); idem \ FLO 5278 (1♂, MNRJ); idem \ FLO 5264 (1♂, CZMA); idem, 10–20.i.2022, idem \ FLO 5276 (1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5279 (1♂, MZUSP); idem \ FLO 5425 (1♂, MNRJ); idem \ FLO 5269 (1♂, INPA); idem \ FLO 5431 (1♂, INPA); idem, 01– 20.xii.2021, idem \ FLO 4220 (1♂, MNRJ); idem, 20–31.xii.2021, idem \ FLO 5428 (1♂, MPEG); idem \ FLO 5280 (pinned, terminalia in glass microvial, good condition: 1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5263 (pinned, terminalia in glass microvial, good condition: 1♂, CZMA); idem \ FLO 5426 (1♂, MZUSP); idem \ MALAISE (2 m), 01–14.ii.2022, idem \ FLO 5430 (1♂, INPA); idem \ FLO 5273 (1♂, MNRJ); idem \ FLO 5424 (1♂, MZUSP); C.[=Cândido] Mendes, Fazenda 7 Irmãos, 01°52′06′′S, 45°45′59.7′′W \ Arm. [=Armadilha] Malaise, 15–30.vi.2019, F. Limeira-de-Oliveira, A. Tôrres & J.S. Brito, cols \ FLO 5296 (1♂, MPEG); idem, 01–15.iv.2019, idem \ FLO 5427 (1♂, INPA).
Variation. Male (n = 10). Body length 2.4–3.2 mm, mean 2.8 mm; wing length 1.8–2.6 mm, mean 2.2 mm; wing width 0.4–0.6 mm, mean 0.5 mm.
Geographical record. Brazil (Amazonas and Maranhão, new record).
Remarks. Specimens of H. cercusdilatata were collected in Cândido Mendes in April and June, and in Centro Novo do Maranhão in December and February.
description: Published as part of Martins, Alana E. S., Câmara, Josenir T. & Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco, 2025, Hemerodromia Meigen (Diptera, Empididae, Hemerodromiinae) from the state of Maranhão, Brazil: description of six new species and new records, pp. 305-326 in Zootaxa 5627 (2) on pages 323-325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/15326016