The Tabanidae of the Mitaraka expedition, with an updated check list of French Guiana (Diptera).

This paper documents the horse fly fauna collected in lowland rainforest in the southwesternmost part of French Guiana (Mitaraka). During this "Our Planet Revisited" survey nine tabanid species were recorded from French Guiana for the first time: Chrysops ecuadorensis Lutz, C. incisus Macquart, Catachlorops amazonicus Henriques & Gorayeb, Chlorotabanus flagellatus Krolow & Henriques, Cryptoylus cauri Stone, Phaeotabanus phaeopterus Fairchild, Philipotabanus stigmaticalis (Kröber), Stypommisa captiroptera (Kröber) and Tabanus amapaensis Fairchild. An updated check list of Tabanidae of French Guiana is presented, including 79 species and one unidentified Chrysops.

Introduction

The horse flies (, ) have a worldwide distribution with almost 4,400 valid species (Pape et al. 2011). The Neotropical region has the highest species richness with approximately 1,205 species (Henriques et al. 2012), about 28% of the global tabanid fauna.

In French Guiana tabanid diversity has only poorly been studied. Except for species described by e.g., Fabricius and Macquart in the 18th and 19th centuries, only few species have been recorded from this part of South America and the Kröber catalogue (1934) only lists 22 species. Subsequent species lists were provided by Floch (1955) and Floch and Fauran (1955). Fairchild (1970) extended the list of French Guiana to 38 species by compiling data from the literature (including original descriptions), Floch’s work, and by examining material from the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle (MNHN, Paris, France). In the second part of the same manuscript, through material received from A.S. Balachowsky, Fairchild described two new species and added eight new records, which further increased the number to 48 species. More recently Raymond et al. (1984) recorded another 15 species for the first time from French Guiana. Other significant inventories by Raymond (1986, 1987) investigating the efficiency of sampling methods also added new records and confirmed old ones. In contrast to the compiled number of species from the above-mentioned papers (63 spp.), in the most recent Neotropical catalogue merely 48 species were cited from French Guiana, with 35 restricted to French Guiana, and 13 with a wider Neotropical distribution (Coscarón and Papavero 2009).

In 2015, a biodiversity survey was conducted in the southwesternmost part of French Guiana (Pascal et al. 2015) that produced a substantial number of dipteran samples, including diverse (Pollet et al. 2015). The objective of the present paper is to document on the tabanid fauna encountered during the Mitaraka 2015 survey (French Guiana) and to present an updated check list of of French Guiana.

Methods

In 2015 the “Our Planet Revisited” or “La Planète revisitée” Guyane 2014–2015 expedition, also known as the “Mitaraka 2015 survey”, was conducted in French Guiana (Pollet et al. 2014, Pascal et al. 2015). This was the 5th edition of a large-scale biodiversity survey undertaken by the French Museum of Natural History in Paris and the NGO Pro-Natura international (both in France). Both organizations jointly run the “Our Planet Reviewed” programme which aims to rehabilitate taxonomical work that focuses on the largely neglected components of global biodiversity, i.e., invertebrates (both marine and terrestrial). Basic arthropod taxonomy and species discovery were at the heart of the survey, although forest ecology and biodiversity distribution modelling, nevertheless, were also part of the project. The expedition was conducted in the Mitaraka Mountains, a largely unknown and uninhabited area in the southwesternmost corner of French Guiana, directly bordering Surinam and Brazil (Fig. 1). It is part of the Tumuc Humac mountain chain, extending east in Amapa region and west in southern Surinam. The area consists primarily of tropical lowland rain forest with scattered inselbergs, isolated hills that stand above the forest plains (Figs 2–5).

Figure 1.

Map of French Guiana with indication of the investigated area (Mitaraka).

Figures 2–5.

Investigated habitat types at Mitaraka 2 Inselberg Sommet-en-Cloche (photo Xavier Desmier) 3 drop zone (photo Marc Pollet) 4 river bed forest (photo Marc Pollet) 5 lowland rain forest of southern French Guiana (photo Marc Pollet).

From 22 February to 11 March 2015, a team of 32 researchers explored the area, including 12 invertebrate experts. During a second period (11 – 27 March), a second equal-sized team took over and a third smaller team returned to the site from 12 to 20 August 2015. MP was the coordinator of the collected , and was also the only worker actively involved in this survey. Invertebrate sampling was carried out near the base camp, on the drop zone (an area near the base camp that had been clear-cut entirely to allow helicopters to land) and, in particular, along four trails of approximately 3.5 km that started from the base camp in four different directions (Fig. 6). During the first period (22 February to 11 March 2015) more than 21 different collecting methods were applied, with a total of 401 traps operational within a perimeter of 1 km². This array consisted primarily of pan traps (n = 280), Charax butterfly traps (n = 50), square Malaise traps (SLAM) (n = 32), Flight Intercept Traps (FIT, n = 13) and Butterfly banana traps (n = 12), but also a light trap (Figs 7–10). In the second and third periods, pan traps were no longer included. A total of 217 invertebrate samples (often pooled yields of different traps of the same type) were examined, including 93 sweepnet samples, and 27 and 62 samples collected by SLAM and coloured pan traps (24 blue, 22 yellow and 16 white traps), respectively. As MP mainly focused on during active collecting, sweep net samples only rarely contained tabanids. Relevant metadata on the samples (e.g., exact locality and geographic coordinates, date or time period, collection method, and collector(s)) are provided in Appendix 1.

Figure 6.

Mitaraka site map with four trails indicated (map by Maël Dewynter).

Figures 7–10.

Collecting techniques applied during Mitaraka survey 7 SLAM (photo Marc Pollet), 8 6m long Malaise trap (MT) (photo Julien Touroult) 9 flight intercept trap (FIT), with Eddy Porier (photo Julien Toroult) 10 light trap (LT), with Eddy Poirier (photo Marc Pollet).

Non-pan trap samples were sorted to insect orders and families at the SEAG offices (http://insectafgseag.myspecies.info/fr), while pan trap samples were treated similarly at MP’s home lab. Dipteran subsamples (mostly per family) were subsequently disseminated among experts worldwide, in the case of to TKK and ALH. The identification of the tabanid species was conducted by ALH and TKK using taxonomical reviews and identification keys (Barretto 1950, Fairchild and Philip 1960, Fairchild 1976, Wilkerson and Fairchild 1982, Fairchild 1983, 1984, 1985, Gorayeb and Fairchild 1985, Fairchild and Wilkerson 1986, Burger 1996, Henriques and Gorayeb 1999, Henriques 2006, Krolow and Henriques 2010, Turcatel et al. 2010, Krolow et al. 2015), original descriptions, and direct comparison to reliably identified species from the Invertebrates Collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil (INPA) and the Entomological Collection of the Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, Brazil (CEUFT). All collected material was stored in 70% alcohol during the expedition, being dry mounted on pins only about 11 months later in the laboratory. Preservation in alcohol usually affects the recognition of diagnostic features, which often no longer allows identification to species level.

In order to build an updated check list, species distribution records were compiled from the following literature: Fairchild (1976, 1983, 1984), Henriques and Gorayeb (1993), Henriques and Rafael (1993), Fairchild and Burger (1994), Henriques (1997), Coscarón and Papavero (2009), Krolow and Henriques (2010), Turcatel et al. (2010), Krolow et al. (2015), and Henriques (2016). Doubtful country records are indicated by “?”. Next to previously published records, all records from the Mitaraka 2015 survey are included in the check list. Each of these records is represented by the sample code and the number and gender of the collected specimens. Detailed information on the samples is given in Appendix 1. First records for French Guiana are explicitly indicated.

The specimens collected during the Mitaraka 2015 survey are deposited in the Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France (), , and , according to an agreement between TKK and MNHN. Another acronym used in this paper is : American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.

Results

A total number of 255 tabanids of 24 species was collected during the Mitaraka 2015 survey. The subfamily is clearly the best represented with 19 species, followed by with three species, and with two species. Of the 24 species only one belonging to cannot be identified at a specific level. Female specimens were dominant in the samples, accounting for 233 specimens. Nineteen of the 22 males were collected at the light trap. The 6 m long Malaise trap that was installed over a river proved to be most productive, and collected nearly 2/5 of the specimens (see Table 1). Also SLAM traps, light traps, and flight intercept traps yielded at least 10 different species. In sharp contrast to this, neither blue nor yellow or white pan traps produced one single tabanid. In palm forests and forests along rivers, only Stone, Macquart and (Wiedemann) were encountered. Fifteen different species were encountered on or near the drop zone and 16 species in the Malaise trap over the river. seems to prefer humid sites near open water as only one specimen was collected on the drop zone compared to 15 in wet forests and 34 along the river.

Table 1.

Overview of sampling methods that yielded during the Mitaraka 2015 survey.

Collecting methods*	MT(6m)	LT	SLAM	FIT	SW	PVP	PVB
Total number of examined samples	5	10	27	8	93	2	1
Tabanidae species (no. males + females)
Fidena auripes (Ricardo)			2	3
Pityocera cervus (Wiedemann)	4		9
Chrysops ecuadorensis Lutz				1
Chrysops incisus Macquart							1
Chrysops sp.			1	1
Bolbodimyia brunneipennis Stone	4	1	8	1	1
Catachlorops amazonicus Henriques & Gorayeb			1
Chlorotabanus flagellatus Krolow & Henriques	1	2
Chlorotabanus inanis (Fabricius)	3	5	1
Cryptoylus cauri Stone	9	15	2
Diachlorus curvipes (Fabricius)	2			5
Diachlorus fuscistigma Lutz	2		1	1
Dichelacera damicornis (Fabricius)	10	1	1			1
Dichelacera marginata Macquart	34	1	18	1	3
Leucotabanus albovarius (Walker)	1	6
Phaeotabanus phaeopterus Fairchild	1
Philipotabanus stigmaticalis (Kröber)		1	1
Stypommisa captiroptera (Kröber)		6	1	1
Stypommisa modica (Hine)	1
Tabanus amapaensis Fairchild			1
Tabanus antarcticus Linnaeus	1
Tabanus discus Wiedemann	1
Tabanus occidentalis Linnaeus	22	5		29
Tabanus trivittatus Fabricius	2	15	1	1		1
Number species	16	11	14	10	2	2	1
Number specimens	98	58	48	44	4	2	1

* MT(6m): 6m long Malaise trap, LT: light trap, SLAM: square Malaise trap, FIT: flight intercept trap, SW: sweep net, PVP: pink polytrap automatic light trap, PVB: blue polytrap automatic light trap.

This investigation revealed ten species recorded for the first time from French Guiana (see check list). After also screening previous records in the literature, an updated check list of 80 species of is presented here.

List of species of from French Guiana

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild and Burger (1994).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas).

Figure 11A

Figure 11.

A (Ricardo) B (Wiedemann) C Lutz D Macquart E sp. F Stone G Henriques & Gorayeb H Krolow & Henriques I (Fabricius) J Stone K (Fabricius) L Lutz. Photos by Augusto Henriques.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/219 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/224 (1♀ CEUFT; 1♀ INPA); Mitaraka/229 (1♀ CEUFT; 1♀ MNHNP).

Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild and Burger (1994).

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), as Barretto, 1957.

Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Rondônia, Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Henriques (2016).

Distribution: Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas to Amapá, and Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Henriques and Gorayeb (1993).

Distribution: Costa Rica to Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas).

Figure 11B

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), Henriques & Gorayeb (1993), Henriques (1997) and Krolow et al. (2015). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/150 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (3♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/199 (2♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/202 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/207 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/208 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/213 (1♀ INPA); Mitaraka/229 (2♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, Ecuador, French Guiana, Brazil (North), Peru, Bolivia.

Figure 11C

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/224 (1♀ CEUFT).

Updated Distribution: Ecuador, Peru (Madre de Dios), Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Bahia).

Figure 11D

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/227 (1♀ INPA).

Updated Distribution: Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão), eastern Peru, Bolivia.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: Colombia (Vaupés), Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul), ?Paraguay, ?Argentina (Misiones).

Records of French Guiana: see Fabricius (1798) and Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, ?Brazil.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Panama, Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Amapá to Rio Grande do Sul), Argentina (Misiones, Entre Ríos, Chaco), Paraguay.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Southern Mexico to Argentina (Misiones), West Indies.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984), as subspecies of .

Distribution: Trinidad, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: eastern Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas).

.

Figure 11E

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/218 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/220 (1♀ MNHNP).

Comment: Two specimens of this morphotype were captured, but it was not possible to identify them with safety by the lack of recent taxonomic works of this genus.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: eastern Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Ceará).

Records of French Guiana: see Henriques and Rafael (1999).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Amapá, western Maranhão, Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Henriques and Rafael (1993).

Distribution: Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Ecuador (Napo, Morona Santiago), Peru (Loreto), Brazil (Acre, Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso).

Figure 11F

Records of French Guiana: according to Fairchild (1970), the specimen was erroneously identified by Surcouf (1921) as (Bigot) from the locality of Maroni. One female from Saint Laurent du Maroni is deposited at the AMNH (Henriques 2016). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/104 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/115 (1♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/150 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (2♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/189 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/191 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/199 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/200 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/208 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/211 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/213 (1♀ INPA); Mitaraka/219 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Roraima, Pará, Amapá).

– new to French Guiana

Figure 11G

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/229 (1♀ INPA).

Updated distribution: French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá and Amazonas), Peru.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: French Guiana.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru (Loreto), Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Maranhão, Mato Grosso).

(Summers, 1911)

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984) as .

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Maranhão, Mato Grosso).

Figure 11H

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/100 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/102 (1♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/186 (1♀ CEUFT).

Updated distribution: French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará).

Figure 11I

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), Krolow and Henriques (2010) and Henriques (2016). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/008 (1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/029 (1♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/100 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/102 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/115 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/229 (1♀ MNHNP).

Distribution: Southern Mexico to southern Brazil.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Krolow and Henriques (2010).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, eastern Peru, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Maranhão, Rondônia).

Records of French Guiana: see Krolow and Henriques (2010).

Distribution: Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Maranhão, Rondônia); Peru (Madre de Dios).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), Krolow and Henriques (2010) and Henriques (2016).

Distribution: Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará), Ecuador.

Figure 11J

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/008 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/086 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/100 (9♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/102 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/115 (3♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/186 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (4♀ MNHNP, 2♀ INPA); Mitaraka/229 (2♀ MNHNP).

Updated Distribution: Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Panama to Brazil (as far as Mato Grosso), Paraguay, Argentina (Chaco).

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Paraíba, Bahia).

Figure 11K

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/186 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/219 (3♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/220 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/224 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama to Suriname, French Guiana, eastern Peru, Bolivia and Brazil (Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Rondônia, Maranhão, Paraíba, Mato Grosso, ?Minas Gerais), Trinidad.

Figure 11L

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/186 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/218 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/220 (1♀ MNHNP).

Distribution: Colombia, Suriname, French Guina, Ecuador, Peru (Loreto), Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Bahia), Bolivia.

Records of French Guiana: see Macquart (1838) and Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará).

Figure 12A

Figure 12.

A (Fabricius) B Macquart C (Walker) D Fairchild E (Kröber) F (Kröber) G (Hine) H Fairchild I Linnaeus J Wiedemann K Linnaeus L Fabricius. Photos by Augusto Henriques.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Henriques and Gorayeb (1993). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/048 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (5♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (3♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (3♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/222 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/229 (1♀ MNHNP).

Distribution: ?Colombia, Venezuela to Brazil (Amazonas, Pará).

Figure 12B

Records of French Guiana: see Macquart (1847), Fairchild (1970) and Henriques (2016). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/074 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/089 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/100 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/150 (10♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/186 (17♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (6♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (10♀ MNHNP, 1♀ INPA); Mitaraka/191 (2♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/192 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/195 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/207 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/229 (2♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Nicaragua to northern Brazil and eastern Peru.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: Venezuela and Guyana to Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Mexico to northern Argentina (Formosa, Chaco, Salta, Tucumán, Santa Fé, Buenos Aires), Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico.

Figure 12C

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/008 (1♀, 1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/100 (1♀, 1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/102 (1♀, 1♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/189 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador (Napo, Orellana), Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Mexico to Bolivia (Chapare) and Argentina (Salta, Chaco, Misiones), Trinidad.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Fabricius (1787), Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad to Colombia and French Guiana, Brazil (as far as São Paulo, Paraná) and Bolivia.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad and Venezuela to Argentina (Chaco).

Records of French Guiana: see Kröber (1930) and Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Trinidad, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Roraima, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Acre, Rondônia).

Figure 12D

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/188 (1♀ CEUFT).

Updated distribution: Panama (Darien), eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador (Pichincha), French Guiana, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso), eastern Peru.

Figure 12E

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/002 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/191 (1♀ CEUFT).

Updated distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Turcatel et al. (2010).

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Amazonas, Pará, ?Mato Grosso), Argentina (Formosa).

Figure 12F

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/100 (1♀, 1♂ INPA); Mitaraka/102 (3♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/115 (1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/219 (1♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/229 (1♂ INPA).

Updated distribution: Mexico to French Guiana, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará), ?Paraguay.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970) and Henriques (2016).

Distribution: Costa Rica, Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso).

Figure 12G

Records of French Guiana: see Henriques and Gorayeb (1993). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/188 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: Guyana, French Guiana.

Remarks: this species was not recognized as by Fairchild and Wilkerson (1986), and neither transferred to another genus. For unclear reasons, it was omitted in the Fairchild and Burger catalog (1994), but listed as by Coscarón and Papavero (2009).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), as .

Distribution: Colombia (Meta), Ecuador, Peru, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Acre, Ceará), Bolivia, Argentina (Chaco, Salta).

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond et al. (1984).

Distribution: Mexico to Argentina (Salta, Tucumán, Catamarca, Misiones, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires).

Figure 12H

Examined material: sample Mitaraka/229 (1♀ CEUFT).

Updated Distribution: Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Macquart (1848), Fairchild (1984) and Raymond (1986).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso).

Figure 12I

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/186 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Trinidad, Venezuela, Suriname to Peru and Brazil (Amazon basin, Bahia).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Colombia (Vaupés, Amazonas), Peru (Madre de Dios, Putumayo), Guyana, French Guiana, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, ?Bahia).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1984), as Macquart.

Distribution: Venezuela, French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1984).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond (1986).

Distribution: Venezuela, Trinidad, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará, Amazonas), Ecuador, Peru (Loreto), Bolivia.

Figure 12J

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/186 (1♀ CEUFT).

Distribution: Trinidad, ?Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador (Napo), Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Mato Grosso).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970, 1984).

Distribution: Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas).

Records of French Guiana: see Macquart (1846) and Fairchild (1970, 1984).

Distribution: Colombia, French Guiana, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Mato Grosso), eastern Bolivia.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Panama, Guyana, French Guiana, Trinidad, Peru, Bolivia, to Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul), Paraguay.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1983).

Distribution: Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Belize, Trinidad, ?Barbados to Brazil (until Mato Grosso do sul), Argentina (Tucumán, Formosa, Corrientes, Santa Fé, Chaco).

Figure 12K

Records of French Guiana: in Fairchild (1970), as Macquart. Examined material: sample Mitaraka/100 (2♀, 2♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/115 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (8♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/188 (8♀ CEUFT); Mitaraka/189 (5♀, 1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/197 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/198 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/219 (13♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/220 (12♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/224 (1♀ MNHNP).

Distribution: Mexico to Argentina (Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires), Trinidad.

Records of French Guiana: see Bigot (1892), as , and Fairchild (1970, 1984).

Distribution: Panama to Brazil (Pará, Amapá), Trinidad.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970, 1984).

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, Pastaza), e. Peru, Brazil (Roraima, Amazonas, Pará, Amapá).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Trinidad, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador (Napo, Orellana), Peru, Brazil (Acre, Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins), Bolivia.

Records of French Guiana: Raymond et al. (1984) and Raymond (1986).

Distribution: U.S.A. (Texas), Neotropics (except West Indies and Chile), Trinidad.

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970).

Distribution: Panama to Paraguay.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond (1986).

Distribution: Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Amapá, Pará).

Figure 12L

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970). Examined material: sample Mitaraka/002 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/186 (1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/100 (2♀, 1♂ CEUFT); Mitaraka/102 (1♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/115 (7♀, 2♂ MNHNP); Mitaraka/169 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/189 (2♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/197 (1♀ MNHNP); Mitaraka/222 (1♂ MNHNP).

Distribution: ?Costa Rica, ?Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil (Rondônia, Amazonas, Roraima, Pará, Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins).

Records of French Guiana: see Fairchild (1970), as Hine.

Distribution: U.S.A. (Florida), Bahamas, West Indies (Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico), southeastern Mexico to Suriname, French Guiana and northern Brazil.

Records of French Guiana: see Raymond (1986) and Henriques and Gorayeb (1993).

Distribution: e. Colombia, French Guiana, eastern Peru, Brazil (Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul).

Record excluded from French Guiana

(Bigot 1892) was cited from French Guiana by Fairchild (1970). However, in the Fairchild and Burger catalog (1994) the species distribution was corrected to: Mexico to western Colombia. Probably the 1970 Fairchild record refers to .

Discussion

French Guiana is part of the Guiana shield in northern Amazonia, bordering with Suriname in the west and Brazil (Amapá State) in the east, between the Maroni and Oiapoque rivers (Guitet et al. 2013). The Amazon rainforest covers more than 90% of this French department, while savannas and mangroves are present only along the coast (Guitet et al. 2014).

In their check list of insects of French Guiana, Brûlé and Touroult (2014) registered about 15,100 valid species names allocated in 20 orders and 322 families. According to the authors, is one of the poorest studied groups, with only 577 known species, including 6 endemic species, 50 species described from French Guiana, and 2 dubious records.

A high insect endemism in French Guiana is not very likely, because the country does not have strong geographical barriers with its neighbouring countries, Suriname and Brazil (Amapá) (Brûlé and Touroult 2014), and the same habitat types (or life zones) are present in each of these regions. This seems to be suggested by the observation that Suriname and Amapá share 49 and 42 species of (excluding the species with a large distribution) with French Guiana, respectively (Coscarón and Papavero 2009).

As expected, most species (76 sp.) observed in French Guiana belongs to the Amazonian tabanid fauna. Of its 80 species, 32 species have a large distribution in the Amazon basin, 30 species are shared by French Guiana with Suriname and/or Amapá state, and another 13 species with Guyana and/or Pará state. Three species have an even more extensive distribution range beyond French Guiana. Only one species might be endemic and another could not be identified, possibly a new species of .

Currently, Fairchild seems endemic to French Guiana, while two other species, (Hine) and Gorayeb, are shared only with Guyana and Pará (Brazil), respectively.

The distribution records of Coscarón and Papavero (2009) were analysed, and it is estimated that approximately an additional 43 species have a high probability of occurring in French Guiana (Table 2). All estimated species have records from Suriname (11 spp.), Amapá (10 spp.), or both regions (2 spp.), or have a wide distribution in the Amazon region (20 spp.).

Table 2.

List of known from neighbouring regions and expected to occur in French Guiana.

N°	Species	Present occurrence
1	Esenbeckia osornoi Fairchild, 1942	Suriname, Amapá
2	Fidena loricornis Kröber, 1931	Amapá
3	Fidena nigripennis (Guérin-Méneville, 1832)	Suriname
4	Chrysops calogaster Schiner, 1868	Amapá
5	Chrysops guttipennis Kröber, 1929	Suriname
6	Chrysops leucospilus Wiedemann, 1828	Amazon
7	Acanthocera bequaerti Fairchild & Aitken, 1960	Suriname
8	Acanthocera fairchildi Henriques & Rafael, 1992	Amazon
9	Acanthocera polistiformis Fairchild, 1961	Amapá
10	Catachlorops difficilis (Kröber), 1931	Amazon
11	Catachlorops fumipennis Kröber, 1931	Amazon
12	Catachlorops testaceus (Macquart, 1846)	Guyana, Amapá
13	Diachlorus nuneztovari Fairchild & Ortiz, 1955	Amazon
14	Diachlorus pechumani aitkeni Fairchild, 1972	Surinam
15	Diachlorus podagricus (Fabricius), 1805	Amazon
16	Diachlorus xynus Fairchild, 1972	Suriname
17	Dichelacera bifacies Walker, 1848	Amapá
18	Dichelacera cervicornis (Fabricius), 1805	Suriname, Amapá
19	Dichelacera varia (Wiedemann, 1828)	Amapá
20	Eutabanus pictus Kröber, 1930	Amapá
21	Leucotabanus pauculus Fairchild, 1951	Amazon
22	Phaeotabanus innotescens (Walker, 1854)	Suriname
23	Phaeotabanus prasiniventris (Kröber, 1929)	Amapá
24	Philipotabanus pictus Gorayeb & Rafael, 1984	Amazon
25	Selasoma tibiale (Fabricius, 1805)	Amazon
26	Stenotabanus cretatus Fairchild, 1961	Amapá
27	Stenotabanus geijskesi Fairchild, 1953	Suriname
28	Stibasoma currani Philip, 1943	Amazon
29	Stibasoma flaviventris (Macquart, 1848)	Amazon
30	Stibasoma fulvohirtum (Wiedemann, 1828)	Amazon
31	Stypommisa prunicolor (Lutz, 1912)	Amazon
32	Stypommisa venosa (Bigot, 1892)	Amazon
33	Tabanus amazonensis (Barretto, 1949)	Amazon
34	Tabanus cicur Fairchild, 1942	Amazon
35	Tabanus claripennis (Bigot, 1892)	Neotropical
36	Tabanus curtus Hine, 1920	Suriname
37	Tabanus glaucus Wiedemann, 1819	Amazon
38	Tabanus macquarti Schiner, 1868	Suriname
39	Tabanus sannio Fairchild, 1956	Amazon
40	Tabanus secundus Walker, 1848	Suriname
41	Tabanus sorbillans Wiedemann, 1828	Amazon
42	Tabanus unimacula Kröber, 1934	Suriname
43	Tabanus xuthopogon Fairchild, 1984	Amapá

With respect to the collecting methods, although interception traps (including Malaise traps and SLAM) are a passive method and without attractive power, they are among the most effective methods for capturing female tabanids, because the females are strong and frequent flyers, travelling great distances daily looking for a blood meal. The six meters Malaise trap is extremely effective for , and on some occasions several hundreds of specimens have been collected during one day (Gressitt and Gressitt 1962). According to Brown (2005), the Malaise trap method is especially effective to collect Neotropical , and seems to be one of 22 most abundant families in Malaise trap samples.

While the females are satisfactorily collected by interception traps, the males are rarely found in these traps, mainly because they are nectarivores, and thus do not need to travel far in search of warm-blooded hosts. As a result, male tabanids are also poorly represented in collections and even often unknown. Their rarity in interception traps might also be related to the effect of flowering periods, their preference to fly in higher tree strata or by their flight in restricted areas waiting for females to mate (Krolow et al. 2010). In contrast, males are commonly attracted to light, and the use of luminous attractant for collecting horse flies usually attracts much more males than females, PageBreakPageBreakusually of species with crepuscular habits (Frost 1951, Anthony 1960, Philip 1982, Fairchild 1986, Henriques and Rafael 1999).

Taking into account the large number of interception trap types employed during the Mitaraka (with only one operational light trap), female specimens were dominant in the samples as expected, accounting for 233 specimens, mostly collected by interception trap types, such as the 6m long Malaise trap (n = 98), SLAMs (n = 48), and flight intercept traps (n = 44). On the other hand, 19 of the 22 males were collected at the light trap, although, curiously, the trap collected more females than males (39 females vs 19 males) (see Table 1).

Table 1A.

See Legend of Table 1 for explanation of abbreviations for collecting methods.

Sample id	Sample cd	Label
13882	MITARAKA/002	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 23.ii.2015, LT, leg. Julien Touroult (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/002 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13888	MITARAKA/008	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 25.ii.2015, LT, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/008 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13909	MITARAKA/029	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 28.ii.2015, LT, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/029 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13928	MITARAKA/048	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 2.iii.2015, LT, leg. Jean-Hervé Yvinec (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/048 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13954	MITARAKA/074	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-A-RBF1, 02°14’11.4”N, 54°27’07.0”W, 306 m, on vegetation along muddy trail and in swamp, 6.iii.2015, SW, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/074 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13966	MITARAKA/086	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 7.iii.2015, LT, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/086 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13969	MITARAKA/089	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, on leaf litter, muddy spots and vegetation along muddy trail, 8.iii.2015, SW, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/089 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13980	MITARAKA/100	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 9.iii.2015, LT, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/100 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13982	MITARAKA/102	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 9.iii.2015, LT, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/102 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13984	MITARAKA/104	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, on vegetation along muddy trail and in swamp, 10.iii.2015, SW, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/104 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
13995	MITARAKA/115	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, drop zone, 24.ii.2015-10.iii.2015, LT, leg. Julien Touroult (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/115 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14030	MITARAKA/150	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-A-RBF2, 02°14’12.5”N, 54°27’08.1”W, 287 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 27.ii.2015-10.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/150 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14049	MITARAKA/169	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ1, 02°14’01.4”N, 54°27’00.2”W, 304 m, tropical moist forest (plateau-slope), 1.iii.2015-8.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Marc Pollet (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/169 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14064	MITARAKA/186	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, nr MIT-A-RBF1, river, 1.iii.2015-7.iii.2015, MT(6m), leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/186 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14065	MITARAKA/188	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, nr MIT-A-RBF1, river, 1.iii.2015, MT(6m), leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/188 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14066	MITARAKA/189	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, nr MIT-A-RBF1, river, 25.iii.2015, MT(6m), leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/189 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14068	MITARAKA/191	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 14.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/191 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14069	MITARAKA/192	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 10.iii.2015-14.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/192 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14072	MITARAKA/195	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 1.iii.2015-6.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/195 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14074	MITARAKA/197	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 20.iii.2015-25.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/197 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14075	MITARAKA/198	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, tropical most forest (different sites) nr DZ, 6.iii.2015-10.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/198 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14076	MITARAKA/199	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-A-RBF2, 02°14’12.5”N, 54°27’08.1”W, 287 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 14.iii.2015-20.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/199 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14077	MITARAKA/200	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 14.iii.2015-20.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/200 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14079	MITARAKA/202	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-A-RBF2, 02°14’12.5”N, 54°27’08.1”W, 287 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 10.iii.2015-14.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/202 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14084	MITARAKA/207	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-A-RBF2, 02°14’12.5”N, 54°27’08.1”W, 287 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 20.iii.2015-25.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/207 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14085	MITARAKA/208	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 20.iii.2015-25.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/208 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14088	MITARAKA/211	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 20.iii.2015-25.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/211 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14090	MITARAKA/213	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-C-RBF2, 02°14’03.4”N, 54°26’53.0”W, 299 m, tropical wet forest (bas fond), 10.iii.2015-14.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/213 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14094	MITARAKA/218	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, tropical moist forest (plateau-slope - cleared), 1.iii.2015, SLAM, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/218 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14095	MITARAKA/219	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, tropical moist forest (plateau-slope - cleared), 1.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/219 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14096	MITARAKA/220	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, MIT-DZ, 02°14’01.8”N, 54°27’01.0”W, 306 m, tropical moist forest (plateau-slope - cleared), 6.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/220 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14098	MITARAKA/222	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most 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)
14100	MITARAKA/224	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites “sous bois”), 7.iii.2015, FIT, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/224 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14103	MITARAKA/227	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, tropical most forest (different sites), 3.iii.2015, PVB, leg. Julien Touroult & Eddy Poirier (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/227 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)
14304	MITARAKA/229	(FR-GU) Guyane Française, Mitaraka, different sites nr base camp and along trails, open / partially opened areas around base camp and drop zone, and in savane roche 2, 12.viii.2015-20.viii.2015, SLAM, leg. Pierre-Henri Dalens (FR-GU/Mitaraka/2015) - sample code: MITARAKA/229 (sorted by Marc Pollet, 2015)