Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) present in aquatic macrophytes from wetlands of Marchantaria Island, Iranduba, Central Amazonia, Brazil Author Torreias, S. R. S. Laboratório de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, Coordenação de Biodiversidade - CBio, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil; Author Ferreira-Keppler, R. L. Laboratório de Citotaxonomia e Insetos Aquáticos, Coordenação de Biodiversidade - CBio, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil; Author Ronderos, M. M. División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, CCT-CONICET-CEPAVE, Buenos Aires, Argentina text Journal of Natural History 2013 2013-06-25 48 1 - 2 109 122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2013.791934 journal article 10.1080/00222933.2013.791934 1464-5262 5198735 Paryphoconus aemulus Macfie Paryphoconus aemulus Macfie, 1940: 180 (female; Guyana ); Borkent and Spinelli, 2007: 97 (in Neotropical catalogue), Borkent, 2012: 167 (online catalogue). Distribution Brazil (Amazonas, Mato Grosso ), Guyana , Peru . Material examined Brazil , Amazonas , Iranduba , Ilha da Marchantaria , Lago Camaleão , S. auriculata , 27 July 2010 , Marino, Díaz and Torreias, 1 male (reared in laboratory, with pupal exuvia) . Comments The genus Paryphoconus is exclusively Neotropical ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007 ). Their pupae are very poorly known, and the larvae are unknown. The genus is presently known by 41 species with 22 records throughout the Amazon region, of which 17 occur in the Brazilian Amazon, from Amazonas , Mato Grosso , Pará and Rondônia States ( Borkent and Spinelli 2007 ; Mauad and Spinelli 2011 ). Recently, Ronderos et al. (2007a) recorded the occurrence of Paryphoconus oliveirai Lane within the Manaus city limits, the pupae of which were collected in polluted urban streams.