Syncoptozus Enderlein

(Figs 15, 49, 60, 77)

Diagnosis: Body strongly depressed; wings held flat over body (Fig. 60). Head strongly flattened, slightly wider than mesoscutum, wedge-shaped (Fig. 15); lateral ocelli placed far forward; genal processes absent. Antenna with sculpture as rows of small spinules; bases of terminal setae well separated. Clypeus very small. Forewing (Fig. 49) with pterostigma small, short and somewhat thicker than membrane; vein Cu1 shorter than Cu1b and perpendicular to M and Cu1a; apex of Cu1b directed towards wing base; cell cu1 very long and low; bifurcation of M strongly diverging, hence cell m1 large, triangular and almost equilateral. Meracanthus absent or poorly developed; metatibia without genual spine, with (5–7)+1 apical spurs; metabasitarsus without spurs; all tarsal segments elongated; tarsal claws straight and long, appearing like a third tarsal segment.

Biology and damage: Immatures are housed in roll leaf galls (Hodkinson 1990).

Host-plants: Magnolia (Magnoliaceae) (Hodkinson 1989).

Distribution: Neotropical (Hodkinson 1989).

Remarks: This is the first record of the genus from Colombia.

Examined material: Syncoptozus mexicanus Hodkinson: Cundinamarca: 11 (male, female), Bogotá, Teusaquillo, Estación Transmilenio Univ. Nal., 4°38'8"N, 74°4'58"W, 2590 m, 25-Jan-2014, Magnolia grandiflora (R. Simbaqueba) UNAB 1373; 12 (male, female), Bogotá, Teusaquillo, Estación Transmilenio Ciudad Universitaria, 4°37'56.04”N, 74°5'4.37”W, 2561 m, 25-Jan-2014, Moraceae (F. Serna), UNAB 1373.