Review of Platyplastinx Enderlein, 1937 (Diptera, Psychodidae) with descriptions of four new species
Author
Lopes, Priscila Silva
Author
Bravo, Freddy
text
Zootaxa
2015
4048
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583
593
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4048.4.9
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Platyplastinx
Enderlein
Platyplastinx
Enderlein, 1937
:107
(original description),
type
species:
Platyplastinx solox
Enderlein
, by original designation.
Quate 1963
:195
(diagnosis).
Quate 1999
: 433 (revised description).
Quate & Brown 2004
: 66–67 (revised description).
Diagnosis
(modified from
Quate & Brown (2004))
.
Male
: Eye bridge usually with 4 facet rows, some species with 3, usually separated by 0.3 to 1.5 facet diameters, contiguous in some species; interocular suture present; setae patch of frons undivided; antennae with fourteen fusiform flagellomeres, 14th with cylindrical apiculus; ascoids simple, digitate, paired, approximately 2 times the length of the flagellomeres bearing them; thorax without allurement organs; wings with infuscate patterns, usually with dark spots at the apices and bases of some veins; forks basal to wing center; R5 ending at wing tip; aedeagus asymmetrical, except in the new species
P. exiguus
; single paramere having various shapes; epandrium with single foramen; cerci with 2
types
of tenacula; usually one, but some species with 3, 12 or 15, elongated principal tenacula with fimbriate, feathered or clavate apices; another group of 2 to 20 rod-like accessory tenacula with striated or fringed apices in some species; elongate principal tenacula 2 to 8 times longer than rod-like accessory tenacula.
Female.
For a diagnosis of the females see
Quate & Brown (2004)
.
Comments.
The most distinguishing features of
Platyplastinx
species include the presence of two
types
of tenacula on the male cerci and the absence of apical lobes on the hypogynium of the female (the subgenital plate of
Quate & Brown 2004
).