Redescription of Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia) albicoxa Lane & Forattini, 1956 with new synonymy (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

Abstract

Stilobezzia Kieffer, 1911 is a diverse genus of predaceous Ceratopogonidae (Ceratopogoninae: Ceratopogonini) with 349 species recognized worldwide (Borkent & Dominiak 2020). The genus has four subgenera, three occurs in Brazil, where Stilobezzia s. str. is the most speciose, with 23 species registered (Santarém & Felippe-Bauer 2019).During field works carried out in forest fragments of urban areas of Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil, we found a species briefly described by Lane & Forattini in 1956, Stilobezzia albicoxa. Herein, we fully redescribe and illustrate it and we recognize S. dureti Lane & Forattini, 1958 as a junior synonym of S. albicoxa. We also provide the first record of this species from Amazonas State.