The Sepsidae of the Mitaraka expedition, French Guiana (Diptera) Author Silva, Vera C. Departamento de Morfologia e Fisiologia Animal, de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Acesso Prof. Paulo Donato Castellane, s / n, 14884 - 900, Jaboticabal, SP (Brazil) de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, FFCL Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Avenida dos Bandeirantes, 3900, 14040 - 900, Ribeirão Preto, SP (Brazil) vera. c. silva @ unesp. br silva@unesp.br Author Pollet, Marc Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Herman Teirlinckgebouw, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium); and Entomology Unit, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Vautierstraat 29, B- 1000 Brussels (Belgium) text Zoosystema 2020 2020-05-07 42 14 195 205 journal article 22201 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a14 35b6b9f8-84f7-43fd-a024-da339cc61dac 1638-9387 3824270 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D90B9037-8482-431A-94D7-30C78E2DB288 Meropliosepsis sexsetosa Duda, 1926 ( Fig. 1C ) Meropliosepsis sexsetosa Duda, 1926a: 28 . FIG. 1. — A , Archisepsis armata ( Schiner, 1868 ) ; B , Archisepsis diversiformis ( Ozerov, 1993 ) ; C , Meropliosepsis sexsetosa Duda, 1926 ; D , Microsepsis armillata ( Melander & Spuler,1917 ) ; E , Microsepsis furcata ( Melander & Spuler,1917 ) ; F , Microsepsis mitis ( Curran,1927 ) ; G , Palaeosepsioides erythromyrmus ( Silva, 1991 ) ; H , Palaeosepsis dentata (Becker, 1919) . Scale bars: 1 mm. All pictures are retrieved from Sepsidnet 2013 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — French Guiana • 2 ♀ ; Mitaraka : MIT-C- SL ( MIT08 ); 02°14’07.7”N , 54°26’41.5”W ; 373 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (slope); 2-8.III.2015 ; YPT; Marc Pollet leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/130; MNHN • 2 ♂ ; MIT- C-SL ( MIT08 ); 02°14’07.7”N , 54°26’41.5”W ; 373 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (slope); 2.III.2015 - 8.III.2015 ; WPT, Marc Pollet leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/131; MNHN • 1 ♀ ; MIT-A-TOP; 02°14’19.8”N , 54°27’11.3”W ; 361 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (plateau); 3-8.III.2015 ; YPT; Marc Pollet leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015, sample code MITARAKA/151; MNHN • 1 ♀ ; MIT-A-TOP; 02°14’19.8”N , 54°27’11.3”W ; 361 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (plateau); 3-8.III.2015 ; WPT; Marc Pollet leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/152; MNHN • 1 ♀ ; MIT-A-SL; 02°14’17.8”N , 54°27’08.2”W ; 352 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (slope); 3-8.III.2015 ; WPT; Marc Pollet leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/155; MNHN • 1 ♀ ; different sites near base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 1.III.2015 - 6.III.2015 ; SLAM ; Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/195; MNHN • 1 ♂ , 3 ♀ ; MIT-DZ; 02°14’01.8”N , 54°27’01.0”W ; 306 m a.s.l. ; tropical most forest (different sites) near DZ; 6-10.III.2015 ; FIT; Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/198; MNHN • 2♀ ; MIT-DZ; 02°14’01.8”N , 54°27’01.0”W ; 306 m a.s.l. ; 6.III.2015 ; FIT; Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/216; MNHN • 2 ♀ ; MIT-DZ; 02°14’01.8”N , 54°27’01.0”W ; 306 m a.s.l. ; tropical moist forest (plateau-slope – cleared); 6.III.2015 ; FIT; Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015; sample code MITARAKA/220; MNHN • 1 ♀ ; different sites near base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites “sous bois”); 7.III.2015 ; FIT; Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier leg.; FR-GU/ Mitaraka /2015); sample code MITARAKA/224; MNHN . UPDATED DISTRIBUTION. — Bolivia , Brazil ( Mato Grosso , Mato Grosso do Sul , Rio de Janeiro ), Costa Rica , Dominican Republic , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guyana , Panama , Peru , Venezuela . REMARK New to French Guiana .