Overview
Brief Summary
Introduction
The six species of Amazunculus are only known from the Amazon basin in South America.
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Comprehensive Description
Characteristics
These large flies are the only pipunculids that have the basal third of the wing shaded dark brown. The hind tarsi are also distinctively flattened.
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Evolution and Systematics
Evolution
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
- Amazunculus
- Amazunculus besti
- Amazunculus claripennis
- Amazunculus corduligaster
- Amazunculus deargentatus
- Amazunculus duckei
- Amazunculus platypodus
A tribal phylogeny of the Eudorylini (Skevington and Yeates, 2001) includes two Amazunculus exemplars (A. besti and A. platypodus).
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