Cyphomyia wiedemanni Gerstaecker 1857
Creators: name: Fachin, Diego Aguilar
name: Zichinelli, Marcela Maria Parada
name: Barrett, Bolívar Rafael Garcete
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Stratiomyidae
Cyphomyia
Cyphomyia wiedemanni

description: wiedemanni Gerstaecker, 1857 (Figs 70, 108 and 109)
= Cyphomyia flavispinis Macquart, 1855: 60. Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (NHMUK). Type locality: “Amérique méridionale”. Syn. by Gerstaecker (1857: 302).
Cyphomyia wiedemanni Gerstaecker, 1857: 302. Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (ZMHB). Type locality: Brazil, Pará; Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (ZMHB). Type locality: French Guiana, Cayenne; Syntypes: number of specimens and sex not stated (ZMHB). Type locality: Suriname; Syntype: 1 female (ZMHB). Type locality: Venezuela; Syntypes: 1 male, 1 female (ZIL). Type locality: Brazil; Syntypes: male, female, but the quantity of each sex is not stated (NMW). Type locality: Brazil, “south Brazil ”.
= Cyphomyia albispinis Costa, 1866: 39. Nomen nudum. Probably refers to Cyphomyia flavispinis Macquart, 1855.
= Cyphomyia cyanispis Bigot, 1874: 86. Nomen nudum.
= Cyphomyia cyanispis Bigot, 1876: 487. Holotype: male (NHMUK). Type locality: Brazil, “Amazon”.
= Cyphomyia wiedemanni ssp. peruana Lindner, 1933b: 329. Holotype: female (SMF). Type locality: Peru, Iquitos, Roqué.
= Cyphomyia wiedemanni ssp. burmeisteri Lindner, 1949a: 786. Nomen nudum.
= Cyphomyia wiedemanni ssp. burmeisteri Lindner, 1949b: 863. Syntypes: 2 males (NHMUK). Type locality: Brazil, “Amazon”.
= Cyphomyia viedemanni: James, 1953: 311. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
References. Lindner, 1928a: 94, 97 (record from Paraguay); James, 1939b: 600 (record from Paraguay); James, 1940: 131 (in key to species), 146 (list); James, 1973a: 26.27 (cat.); Woodley, 2001: 161 (cat.).
Material examined. Paraguay: 1 ♀, Dpto. [Departamento] Amambay, Parq. Nac. [Parque Nacional] Cerro Corá, 08.xi.1983, H. Ferreira C. colr [collector] (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2058). 1 ♀, Dpto. [Departamento] Concepción, Horqueta, vii.1984, Colr. [collector] P. Mueller (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2059). 1 ♀, Cordillera, [Caacupé], Cabañas, 27.i.2019, Coll. J. Movia (MNHNPY; MNHNP-HX 2059). 2 ♀, San Pedro, Cororo-Rio Ypane, 28–30.xi.1983, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA); 1 ♀, San Pedro, Cororo-Rio Ypane, 24–27.xi.1983, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA); 2 ♀, San Pedro, Cororo-Rio Ypane, 01–04.xii.1983, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA); 4 ♀, San Pedro, CororoRio Ypane, 05–09.xii.1983, M. Wasbauer coll. (CSCA). 1 ♂, San Pedro, General [Isidoro] Resquín, Naranjito, 01.i.1994, Bolívar Garcete col. (MEL).
Distribution. Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay (lower portion of Río Pilcomayo, see Lindner 1928a: 94; Amambay: Parque Nacional Cerro Corá; Concepción: Horqueta; Cordillera: Caacupé: Cabañas, San Bernandino; San Pedro: Cororo-Rio Ypane, General Isidoro Resquín), Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Comments. Additional images of the male specimen from General Isidoro Resquín, San Pedro, Paraguay can be found here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/114960459.
description: Published as part of Fachin, Diego Aguilar, Zichinelli, Marcela Maria Parada & Barrett, Bolívar Rafael Garcete, 2022, An illustrated checklist of Stratiomyidae (Diptera: Brachycera) from Paraguay with three new synonyms and 22 new records of species for the country, pp. 1-55 in Zootaxa 5190 (1) on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7119906