Brakemyia, a New Neotropical Jackal Fly Genus of Milichiidae (Insecta: Diptera) Associated with Carton Ant Nest
Fernando S. Carvalho-Filho 
Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Rodrigo R. Barbosa
Coordenação de Zoologia, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
Matheus M.M. Soares
Graduate Program in Entomology, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Communicated by Y. Miles Zhang
Brakemyia metallica gen. et sp. nov. (Diptera, Milichiidae) is described and illustrated based on male and female specimens reared from carton nests of the ant Azteca aff. chartifex Forel (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). The new genus is widely distributed in the Brazilian Amazon, and it can be readily distinguished from the other Neotropical genera by the broadened lunule, which extend, well posterior of the antennae, and hypandrial complex parallel to epandrium.
Keywords
Milichiinae, Jackal flies, Neotropical region, Dolichoderinae, Azteca ant
