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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1
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Trichomyia hileiana
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 27A
–H)
Diagnosis.
M2 not reaching M1; bifurcated basal expansion on gonocoxite; two pairs of arms of gonocoxite, the dorsal larger and broader than the ventral, both with bristles; ejaculatory apodeme 0.8 times the length of gonostylus; cercus with an elongated projection with two apical bristles.
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; cylindrical scape; subquadrangular pedicel; basal flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric (
Fig. 27A
); ascoids 1.2 times as long as a flagellomere; 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by a suture (
Fig. 27F
). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.5 (
Fig. 27B
). Wing. M2 not reaching M1; R4+5 incomplete at base; r-m and m-cu absent (
Fig. 27C
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with bifurcated basal expansion and lateroposterior bristles. Two pairs of arms of gonocoxites, the dorsal larger and broader than the ventral and both with bristles (
Figs. 27D, 27
H). Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, truncated. Aedeagal complex with one pair of Hshaped fused projections. Aedeagus ending at midline of projections in the aedeagal complex (
Fig. 27
H). Ejaculatory apodeme 0.8 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium longer than wide, subcircular. Cercus digitiform with an elongated projection with two apical bristles (
Figs. 27D, 27E, 27G
). Hypoproct with apical setulae (
Fig. 27G
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Brazil
, Amazonas, Presidente Figueiredo, Pitinga,
04.XII.1998
,
holotype
♂,
RQ
,
LMC
leg. (
MZFS
); 37
paratypes
:
1 ♂
, same locality as
holotype
,
15.XII.1998
,
RR
,
LMS
leg. (
INPA
);
2 ♂
, same locality as
holotype
,
06.X.1998
, without name of collector (
MZFS
);
3 ♂
, same locality as
holotype
, Km 75,
25– 27.VII.1997
, without name of collector (
INPA
);
22 ♂
, same locality, date and colectors as
holotype
(
MZFS
);
3 ♂
, Amazonas, Manacapuru, Cajatuba, Km
69/3
,
9.X.1998
, without name of collector (
INPA
);
1 ♂
, Pará, Santarém, Km13, N.S. Nazaré, Com. Santa Maria,
27.XI.1998
, FF, RDN cols (
MZFS
);
3 ♂
, Pará, Santarém, Estrada para Alter do Chão, Jurupari, Km 1315,
25.XI.1998
,
RF
, RAN,
FLS
cols (
MZFS
);
1 ♂
, Roraima, Pitinga,
13– 15.XII.1997
,
RQ
, RN, PE cols (
MZFS
);
1 ♂
, Amazonas, Manacapuru, Estrada do Cajatuba, Sitio do Sr. Simplicio,
24–25.IV.1998
, without name of collector (
INPA
);
Etymology.
The epithet
hileiana
refers to the erudite term, given by Alexander Humboldt to the old province which included the forests of the Amazon.
Distribution.
Brazil—Amazonas, Pará, Roraima.