Suragina Walker 1860
Creators: name: Elgueta, Mario
name: Coscarón, Sixto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Athericidae
Suragina

description: Genus Suragina Walker, 1860: 110.
Type species: Suragina illucens Walker, 1860 by monotypy.
Ref.: Bigot, 1887: 102 (in key); Brunetti, 1909: 418 (com.); Brunetti, 1920: 104 (in key, Leptidae), 121 (com.); Malloch, 1932b: 112, 113(com.); Steyskal, 1953: 239 (com.); Downes, 1958: 258 (com.); Nagatomi, 1958: 47 (as subgenus); James, 1968: 1 (com.); Cole, 1969: 149 (com.); Stuckenberg, 1973: 651 (com. male gen), 652–653 (fig. male gen.), 659, 663 (fem. gen.), 664, 667 (morp.); Thomas, 1974: 55, 58 (com.); Nagatomi & Iwata, 1976: 37–38 (com., fem. gen.); Webb, 1977: 488 (desc.); Webb, 1981: 480 (com.), 482 (key); Nagatomi, 1984a: 96 (key); Woodley, 1989: 1381 (com.); Foote, 1991: 767 (com.); Webb, 1995: 421 (com.), 423 (in key, imm. stag.); Coscarón & Coscarón, 1996: 107 (com.); Rafael et al. 1997: 499 (biol.); Coscarón, 1998: 338 (com.); Colles & McAlpine, 2000: 753 (com.); Stuckenberg, 2000: 156, 157, 158 (com.); Santos, 2008: 47 (com.), 49 (dist.); Woodley, 2007: 29 (com.); Woodley, 2009: 492 (com.), 493 (in key, com.); Kerr, 2010: 20, 21, 23, 31, 32 (morph., phy.); Klassa & Santos, 2015: 523 (list).
concinna (Williston, 1901)
Atherix concinna Williston, 1901: 266.
Syntypes: without sex of specimen (NHMUK). Dist.: México: Guerrero State (Omilteme, Sierra de las Aguas Escondidas); San Luis Potosí State (El Salto, El Naranjo (1 mile West), Nuevo Morelos / 12 miles NW); Taumalipas State (Cañón Peregrino); Veracruz State (Córdoba (cave at origin Rio Atoyac)).
Ref.: Aldrich, 1905: 217 (cat., as Atherix in Leptidae); Kertész, 1908: 299 (cat., as Atherix); Malloch, 1932b: 114 (in key), 115 (com.); James, 1965: 344 (cat.); James, 1968: 6 (cat.); Webb, 1977: 491 (in key), 491–492 (desc.); Webb, 1981: 481 (figs.); Rafael & Henriquez, 1991: 166 (key); Webb, 1995: 421–422 (desc. imm. stag.); Santos, 2008: 47–48 (dist.); Woodley, 2009: 493 (com.); Kerr, 2010: 11, 20 (list), 34 (gen. fig. 86), 39 (gen. fig. 124), 45 (morp.), 51 (gen. fig. 171).
latipennis (Bellardi, 1861)
Atherix latipennis Bellardi, 1861: 93.
Holotype: without sex of specimen (Colezione di Saussure and Bellardi presumably lost?). Distr.: Mexico. Guerrero State (Omilteme); México Federal District; (Ciudad de México); Michoacán State (Angangueo); Oaxaca State (Oaxaca).
Ref.: Osten Sacken, 1878: 65 (cat.); Osten Sacken, 1886: 62 (com.); Williston, 1886: 266 (com.); Aldrich, 1905: 217 (cat., as Atherix); Kertész, 1908: 300 (cat., as Atherix); Malloch, 1932b: 114 (in key), 115 (com.); Stuckenberg, 1960: 217–218 (com.); James, 1968: 6 (cat.); Webb, 1977: 491 (in key), 493–494 (desc.); Rafael & Henriquez, 1991: 166 (key); Papavero & Ibañez-Bernal, 2001: 108 (list); Woodley, 2009: 493 (com.).
longipes (Bellardi, 1861)
Atherix longipes Bellardi, 1861: 94.
Holotype: without sex of specimen (Colezione di Saussure and Bellardi, presumably lost?). Distr.: Costa Rica. Cartago Province (Irazu). México. Chiapas State (Ocozocoautla); Chihuahua State (Samarichie); México Federal District (Tenancingo); Nayarit State (Tepic (24 miles SE); Oaxaca State (Oaxaca, Valle Nacional); Puebla State (Teziutlan (6 miles NE), (5 miles NE), Huauchinango (8 miles SW)); Sinaloa State (Potrerillos); Veracruz State (Córdoba, Potrero (5 miles NW), Rio Atoyac); Panama. Chiriqui Province (Bugaba, Valle de las Minas).
Ref.: Osten Sacken, 1878: 65 (cat.); Osten Sacken, 1886: 62 (com.); Aldrich, 1905: 217 (cat., as Atherix); Kertész, 1908: 300 (cat., as Atherix); Malloch, 1932b: 114 (in key), 115 (com.); Downes, 1958: 258 (com.); James, 1968: 6 (cat.); Webb, 1977: 491 (in key), 492–493 (desc.); Nagatomi, 1984a: 99–100 (com.); Nagatomi, 1984b: 100 (male gen.); Nagatomi & Soroida, 1985: 288 (morph.. mouth.), 344 (figs. 280–284); Rafael & Henriquez, 1991: 166 (key); Stuckenberg, 2000: 157 (com.); Papavero & Ibañez-Bernal, 2001: 108 (list); Woodley, 2009: 492 (com.).
neotropica (Lindner, 1924)
Atherix neotropica Lindner, 1924: 68.
Syntypes: female (MTD). Dist.: Bolivia: Department of La Paz: Larecaja Province (Mapiri, San Antonio, San Carlos). Perú: Department of Cusco: Urubamba Province (Urubamba, Meshagua, Rosalina); Department of Pasco: Oxapampa Province (Pichis, Puerto Bermúdez, Puerto Jessup (actually named Puerto de Yesup)).
Ref.: Coscarón & Coscarón, 1996: 107 (com., n. comb.).
pacaraima Rafael & Henriquez, 1991: 166–168.
Holotype: female Brazil. Roraima State, Serra Pacaraima 27. VIII. 1987 Col. A.L. Henriques (INPA). Distr.: Brazil. Roraima State (Serra Pacaraima).
Refs.: Coscarón & Coscarón, 1996: 107 (com.) Rafael et al. 1997: 499 (com.).
description: Published as part of Elgueta, Mario & Coscarón, Sixto, 2019, A catalog of Athericidae (Diptera) from Neotropical and Andean Regions, pp. 287-298 in Zootaxa 4648 (2) on pages 293-294, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/3354875