Eccritosia barbata (Fabricius, 1787)

(Figs 52 – 55)

Material examined. BRASIL [BRAZIL], Tocantins: Wanderlândia, 06°50’55.680”S – 48°7’8.400”W, malaise [malaise trap], 10-13.XI.2012, Krolow, T. K. & Oliveira, L. A. (♂, ♀ CEUFT).

Distribution. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Tocantins *, Paraíba, Bahia, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro), Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina (LAMAS, 1973).

Comments. Eccritosia barbata has a wide distribution in most of South America, extending from Venezuela to Argentina, with records in most Brazilian states (LAMAS, 1973). In this species the females are larger in length than the males, the females are approximately 24 mm and the males 22 mm. It is characterized by having a white or yellowish mystax (Figs 54, 55), black thorax (Fig. 53), black forelegs and median, black hind femur, yellow tibiae and hind tarsi with white setae, abdomen with black tergite 1 with a white stripe ventrally and white macrosetae laterally, tergite 2 brown with white lateral setae, remaining tergites light brown, terminalia reddish (Fig. 52).