Description of two new species of Tonnoira Enderlein from caves in the Brazilian Amazon and comments about the taxonomic status of Tonnoira plumaria Quate (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae)
Author
Bravo, Freddy
Author
Chagas, Cinthia
Author
Alves, Veracilda Ribeiro
text
Zootaxa
2008
1916
63
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.184612
e30cedee-23dc-4989-835c-fee3db1a8d43
1175-5326
184612
Tonnoira robusta
Bravo, Alves & Chagas
,
sp. nov.
Figs. 11–20
Type
material.
BRAZIL
, Amazonas, Presidente Figueiredo, Gruta Refúgio do Maragua,
02°03´02.64”S
59°57´47.85”W
,
01.IV.2006
, Alves, V. col.,
holotype
male (
INPA
); 1
paratype
male, same locality, date, and collector as
holotype
(
MZUEFS
); 2
paratype
males, same locality and collector as
holotype
,
06.V.2006
(
INPA
,
MZUEFS
); 2
paratype
males, same locality and collector as
holotype
,
09.II.2006
(
INPA
,
MZUEFS
); 1
paratype
female, same locality and collector as
holotype
,
09.II.2006
(
INPA
).
Description. Male. Head (
Fig. 11
): eyes separated by 0.5 facet diameters (
Fig. 11
); interocular suture inverted Y shaped (
Fig.11
). Antenna: scape cylindrical 1.7X length of pedicel (
Fig. 12
); pedicel spherical (
Fig. 12
); flagellum with 14 flagellomeres; all flagellomeres flask-shaped (
Figs. 12, 13
); first flagellomere same length as second (
Fig. 12
); apiculus present in flagellomere 14 (
Fig. 13
); ascoids not visible. Palpus formula = 1.0:2.1:1.9:2.2; last palpomere striated (
Fig. 14
). Wing (
Fig. 15
): Sc short; vein R2+3 obsolete, radial fork free; radial fork basal; medial fork complete; R5 ending at wing apex. Male terminalia: hypandrium narrow, diademe-like without ventral expansion (
Fig. 16
); gonocoxite 0.6X length of the gonostylus (
Fig. 16
); gonostyli convergent, with base larger than apex (
Fig. 16
); alveoli present along entire surface (
Fig. 16
); epandrium rectangular; foramen not observed (
Fig. 17
); cercopod long, 2.2X length of epandrium, slightly curved (
Fig. 18
), with 2 tenacula, one apical and the other subapical (
Fig. 19
); sternite 10 smaller than tergite 10 (
Fig. 17
); aedeagus asymmetrical, bipartite with left branch smaller than right, curved, pointed at apex (
Fig. 16
); right branch of aedeagus with rounded apex (fig. 16); with two asymmetrical parameres ending near the apex of the aedeagus apex (
Fig. 16
); aedeagal apodeme trapezoidal, 0.75x length of aedeagus, wider anteriorly than posteriorly (
Fig. 16
); gonocoxal apodeme not fused at midline (
Fig. 16
).
FIGURES 11–20.
Tonnoira robusta
Bravo, Chagas & Alves
,
sp. nov.
Male (11–19), female (20). 11. Head. 12. Antenna: scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres. 13. Antenna: apical flagellomeres. 14. Palpus. 15. Wing. 16. Male terminalia: dorsal. 17. Male terminalia: tergite and sternite 10 and cercopod. 18. Male terminalia: lateral. 19. Cercopod and apical tenacula. 20. Female terminalia: subgenital plate, genital complex and cerci. d= distance between the base of subgentital plate and apex of apical lobes; S10= sternite 10; T10= tergite 10.
Female (
Fig. 20
). Similar to male except as follows: apical lobes of subgenital plate of females long, rounded, and separated by a shallow apical concavity. Cerci blade-like, 2.2X the total length of genital plate from the anterior border at middle to the lobe apices (distance d). Genital complex small, as illustrated.