First records of Leptopezella Sinclair amp; Cumming (Diptera: Hybotidae: Ocydromiinae) from Brazil.

Leptopezella Sinclair Cumming, 2007 is a small genus of Ocydromiinae characterized by the absence of cell dm (Fig. 3) and presence of ventral spine-like setae on the hind first tarsomere (Fig. 2). It was first mentioned as "undescribed genus A" in the key of Sinclair Cumming (2000) and later described including four species: L. anatolica Sinclair Cumming, 2007, L. perata Sinclair Cumming, 2007 and L. spinosa Sinclair Cumming, 2007 from Australia and L. masneri Sinclair Cumming, 2007 from Bolivia (Sinclair Cumming 2007). In South America the genus has been recorded so far from Bolivia and Argentina (Sinclair Cumming 2000, 2007). In the present study we record the genus occurring for the first time in several administrative states from Brazil.