taxonID	type	description	language	source
03F13A4EFFF4FFE7FF02AF9DFB1B2184.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL EXAMINED. — French Guiana. Mitaraka, La Planète Revisitée Guyane 2015, MNHN-PNI, APA 973 - 1, MIT-DZ, 02 ° 14 ’ 01.8 ” N, 54 ° 27 ’ 01.0 ” W, 306 m, drop zone, 24. II- 10. III. 2015, LT, leg. Julien Touroult (FR-GU / Mitaraka / 2015) – sample code: MITARAKA / 115 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015). 1 ♀, MNHN; idem, Mitaraka, MIT-E-savane roche 2, 02 ° 13 ’ 59.8 ” N, 54 ° 27 ’ 46.5 ” W, 471 m, open / partially opened areas on savane roche 2, 13 - 20. VIII. 2015, MT (6 m), leg. Pierre-Henri Dalens (FR-GU / Mitaraka / 2015) – sample code: MITARAKA / 230 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015), 2 ♂, 1 ♀, MNHN.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE7FF02AF9DFB1B2184.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. — Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana (first record), Brazil (Roraima, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Maranhão, Piauí, Goiás, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, São Paulo), Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE7FF02AF9DFB1B2184.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS. — Frons (Fig. 1 B) yellow or ochreous laterally, darkened centrally on ventral half and on ocellar tubercle, with two spots of silvery pruinosity lateral to ocellar triangle, and fine yellow pilosity; face brown with one yellow V-shaped spot on ventral half, below facial tubercle; scutum brown with acrostichal and dorsocentral stripes of pale golden pruinosity; pleura lacking horizontal stripe of silvery pruinescence on anepisternum (present in R. tibialis); wing (Fig. 1 F) hyaline with brown spots; mid tibia with ventroapical short, wide, spur-shaped process in males; hind tibia with tubercles on dorsal surface; tergites dark brown, with four spots of silvery pruinosity arranged in a checkerboard pattern; postgonites bilobate, phallus lacking lateral projections; dorsal process of hypandrial arms curved, with basal half perpendicular to basal region, apex rounded with short lateral branches.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE7FF02AF9DFB1B2184.taxon	discussion	COMMENTS Together with R. nudipes Frey, 1959 and R. stictica Wiedemann, 1830, R. clavipes belongs to a species group with distinctly infuscated wings. It differs from R. stictica by the size of the wing spots, which are larger in R. clavipes, and from R. nudipes by the number and sharpness of the spots, which are more distinct and numerous in R. clavipes. Furthermore, R. clavipes differs by features of the male genitalia as follows: surstylus straight (falciform in R. nudipes) and anchor-shaped dorsal process of hypandrial arms with short branches (long branches in R. nudipes and R. stictica). Ropalomera clavipes was revised by Kirst & Ale-Rocha (2012).	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE6FC42A8FEFE31249A.taxon	description	(Fig. 1 D, E, G)	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE6FC42A8FEFE31249A.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL EXAMINED. — French Guiana. Mitaraka, La Planète Revisitée Guyane 2015, MNHN-PNI, APA 973 - 1, different sites near base camp and along trails, tropical moist forest (different sites), 10. III. 2015, PVP, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU / Mitaraka / 2015) – sample code: MITARAKA / 222 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015), 1 ♂, MNHN.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE6FC42A8FEFE31249A.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. — French Guiana (first record), Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Maranhão, Pará, Rondônia), Bolivia.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE6FC42A8FEFE31249A.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS. — Frons (Fig. 1 E) with fine yellow pilosity, yellow, darkened around ocellar triangle and vertex; face dark brown; scutum brown with acrostichal and dorsocentral stripes of pale yellow or silvery pruinosity; pleura with stripe of silvery pruinosity extended from proepisternum to metathoraxic spiracle; wing slightly infuscated with darkened areas along the veins, especially R 2 + 3, R 4 + 5, r-m and M 1; fore femur with silvery pruinosity, posterior surface and apical half of posteroventral surface shiny, lacking pruinosity, proximal half of posteroventral surface bare; mid femur with 2 - 3 preapical seta and 1 dorsoapical, strong and curved spine-like setae; mid tibia ventrally with apical spine-like seta; abdomen with bluish reflections; postgonites bilobate; phallus with spinelike apical projections; dorsal process of hypandrial arms with very long lateral branches.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE6FC42A8FEFE31249A.taxon	discussion	COMMENTS Ropalomera tibialis is similar to R. titillator Steyskal, 1967. Both species bear a pleural region with a stripe of silvery pruinosity extending from anepisternum to anepimerum. Ropalomera tibialis can be distinguished from the latter species by the presence of a brown scutum and black setae on the anterior surface of the mid femur and the apex of the mid tibia, whereas the scutum of R. titillator is reddish brown and the setae on the anterior surface of the mid femur and the apex of the mid tibia are rather red or dark brown. Both species were revised by Kirst & Ale-Rocha (2012).	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
03F13A4EFFF4FFE7FF03AA51FDFE2665.taxon	diagnosis	MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION AND SYSTEMATICS Species of this genus are recognized by the following features: predominantly brown body coloration, wide and deepened frons, frontal setae weak or absent, ocellar, postocellar, inner and outer vertical and postpronotal setae present, face with welldeveloped hemispherical tubercle, arista plumose, dorsocentral setae lacking, projection of hypandrial arms (“ spinus titillatorius ”, “ epiphallus ”) anchor-shaped, with short or long branches. Ropalomera is probably a natural group with several derived characters, the most prominent of which are the dorsal projection of the hypandrial arms with lateral branches as an anchor-shaped structure (Kirst & Ale-Rocha 2012) and the bristles inserted on the callus at the dorsal apex of the mid femur. Ropalomera can be distinguished from Apophorhynchus by the presence of an ocellar seta; from Rhytidops and Willistoniella by the central tubercle on the face, while a carina is lacking; from Kroeberia, Lenkokroeberia and Dactylissa by the plumose arista; and from Mexicoa by the presence of postpronotal setae, a plumose arista and 1 - 3 setae on the upper margin of the metathoraxic spiracle.	en	Ale-Rocha, Rosaly, Pollet, Marc (2019): First records of Ropalomeridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from French Guiana. Zoosystema 41 (1): 1-5, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a1
