Acanthocera gorayebi Henriques & Rafael, PARATIPO, Colecao 1992
Creators: name: Oliveira, Lia Pereira
name: Henriques, Augusto Loureiro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Acanthocera
Acanthocera gorayebi

description: Acanthocera gorayebi Henriques & Rafael, 1992: 8, figs. 4a–c, 8.
(Fig. 6)
Holotype ♀. “ Brasil, Amazonas, C.[ampus] Univ.[ersitário], J.A. Rafael [collector], 14.vi.1982, INPA-DIP 265 ”. Forty-one paratypes ♀. Female one: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, Res.[erva] Ducke, 25 m, J.A. Rafael [collector], 23.xi.1981, Arm.[adilha] Suspensa, INPA-DIP 265 P-1”. Female two: idem, except “ 17 m, INPA-DIP 265 P-2”. Female three: “ Brasil, Amazonas, 26 km NE, Manaus, Reserva Ducke, 15 metros, J.A. Rafael [collector], 22.ix.1988, Arm.[adilha] suspensa, INPA-DIP 265 P-3”. Female four: idem, except “21 metros, INPA-DIP 265 P-4”. Female five: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-5”. Female six: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-6”. Female seven: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-7”. Female eight: idem, except “15 metros, INPA-DIP 265 P-8”. Female nine: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-9”. Female ten: “ Brasil, Pará, Oriximiná, Rio Trombetas, Alcoa: Miner[ação], M.[orro] Branco, J.A. Rafael [collector], 07.x.1982, Ar:[madilha] Suspensa, INPA-DIP 265 P-10”. Female eleven: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-11”. Female twelve: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-12”. Female thirteen: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-13”. Female fourteen: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-14”. Female fifteen: idem, except “ 09.x.1982, INPA-DIP 265 P-15”. Female sixteen: idem, except “ 08.x.1982, INPA-DIP 265 P-16”. Female seventeen: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-17”. Female eighteen: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, R.[eserva] Ducke, 25 m [etros], J.A. Rafael [collector], 08.x.1981, Arm.[adilha] Suspensa, INPA-DIP 265 P-18”. Female nineteen: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-19”. Female twenty: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-20”. Female twenty-one: idem, except “ 17 m [etros], 05.x.1981, INPA-DIP 265 P-21”. Female twenty-two: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-22”. Female twenty-three: “ Brasil, Amazonas, 26 km NE, Manaus, Reserva Ducke, 21 metros, J.A. Rafael [collector], 30.ix.1988, Arm.[adilha] Suspensa, INPA-DIP 265 P-23”. Female twenty-four: “ Brasil, Amazonas, C.[ampus] Univ.[ersitário], J.A. Rafael [collector], 19.viii.1978, Malaise trap, INPA-DIP 265 P-24”. Female twenty-five: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-25”. Female twenty-six: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-26”. Female twenty-seven: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Medio purus, Campbell [collector], 20.x.1979, INPA-DIP 265 P-27”. Female twenty-eight: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, R.[eserva] Ducke, A.C.A. 15m, J.A. Rafael [collector], 27.viii.1981, INPA-DIP 265 P-28”. Female twenty-nine: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-29”. Female thirty: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-30”. Female thirty-one: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Reserva Ducke, 26km, N. of. Manaus, Copa de arv.[ore], J.A. Rafael [collector], 27.viii.1982, INPA-DIP 265 P-31”. Female thirty-two: Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, Campus Universit.[ário], J.A. Rafael [collector], 09.ix.1978, INPA-DIP 265 P-32”. Female thirty-three: idem, except “ 16.ix.1978, INPA-DIP 265 P-33”. Female thirty-four: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, R.[eserva] Ducke, Luis-Ulysses [collector], 23.ix.1986, INPA-DIP 265 P-34”. Female thirty-five: “ Brasil, Pará, Oriximiná, Rio Trombetas,Alcoa Miner[ação], C. Alta, J.A. Rafael [collector], 13.x.1982, Ar.[madilha] Malaise, INPA-DIP 265 P-35”. Female thirty-six: “ Brasil, Pará, Rio Trombetas, Final da Perimetral, Eq. Comander [collectors], 6–12.x.85, INPA-DIP 265 P-36”. Female thirty-seven: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-37”. Female thirty-eight: “ idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-38”. Female thirty-nine: “ Brasil, Amazonas, Manaus, Parque Laranjeiras, G.B. Fairchild & J.A. Rafael [collectors], 28–29.vii.1981, Arboreal flight trap, INPA-DIP 265 P-39”. Female forty: idem, except “ INPA-DIP 265 P-40”. Female forty-one: without collection data; labels with the following information: “ Acanthocera (Acanthocera) sp. det. N.D. Penny 76, Acanthocera marginalis Wlk, det G.B. Fairchild 1981, Acanthocera (A) gorayebi Henriques & Rafael, PARATIPO, Coleção do INPA, INPA-DIP 265 P-41”.
Preservation. All well preserved. The abdomen of female twenty-five is missing.
description: Published as part of Oliveira, Lia Pereira & Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, 2025, Illustrated Catalogue of the types of Tabanidae (Diptera: Brachycera) housed in the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 5612 (1) on pages 10-12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5612.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15215869