Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae)
Author
Araújo, Maíra Xavier
Author
Bravo, Freddy
text
Zootaxa
2016
4130
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1
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journal article
38704
10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1
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1175-5326
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Trichomyia rondonensis
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 5A–E
)
Diagnosis.
Apex of Sc unsclerotized; inflated sclerotized gonostylus; two pairs of subtriangular projections in the aedeagal complex, which together form a sheath covering the other two. Aedeagus bifid, divergent; ejaculatory apodeme 1.5 times the length of gonostylus.
FIGURES 5A–E.
Trichomyia rondonensis
sp. nov.
A. Scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres; B. Palpus; C. Right wing; D. Male terminalia, dorsal; E. Cerci, epandrium and hypropoct (abbreviations: aed = aedeagus, gst = gonostylus, pac = projections in the aedeagal complex).
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna incomplete in the studied specimens; scape subcylindrical and pedicel subspherical; flagellomeres pyriform; ascoids 1.2 times the length of flagellomere (
Fig. 5A
). Palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.7 (
Fig. 5B
). Wing. Apex of Sc unsclerotized, R4+5 complete at base; M2 not reaching M1, M3 with base unsclerotized, r-m and m-cu absent (
Fig. 5C
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium fused with gonocoxites, with medial posterior expansion. Arm of gonocoxite pilose with bristles along the medial margin. Gonostylus inflated, slightly trifurcate, sclerotized, articulated ventrally at gonocoxite. Two pairs of projections in the aedeagal complex, the dorsal subtriangular, fused, membranous, covering the aedeagus and the other projections in the aedeagal complex, divergent. Aedeagus bifid, divergent. Ejaculatory apodeme 1.5 times the length of gonostylus (
Fig. 5D
). Epandrium pilose, apically wider. Cercus pilose, subtriangular in ventral view. Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (
Fig. 5E
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Brazil
, Rondônia, Caucalândia,
200km
SSE of Porto Velho,
25.V–06.VI.98
,
holotype
♂, L.W. Quate leg. (
MZFS
); 1
paratype
♂, same locality, date and colector as
holotype
(
MZFS
).
Etymology.
The epithet
rondonensis
is based on the
type
locality.
Distribution.
Brazil—Rondônia