Two new species and new records of Psychoda Latreille (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Brazil, with comments on supraspecific classification of the genus
Author
Bravo, Freddy
Author
Cordeiro, Danilo
Author
Chagas, Cinthia
text
Zootaxa
2006
1298
1
15
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.173590
c239348b-1c2b-4f64-b6e7-7a9df3888afa
11755326
173590
Psychoda
(
Psychodocha
)
dantilandensis
Bravo, Cordeiro & Chagas
sp. n.
(
Figs. 19–27
)
Type
material.
BRAZIL
, Bahia, Dantilândia (Fzda. Sossego,
15°06´S
41° 00´W
), male
holotype
,
25.IV.2004
, R. Vieira & C. Chagas (MZUEFS); 1
paratype
male, same locality, date and collector as
holotype
(MZUEFS); Bahia, Itabuna (
14° 45’ S
,
39° 17’ W
), 2
paratypes
male,
30.V.1999
, J.R. Santos (MZUEFS).
Etymology.
The species name
dantilandensis
is based on the
type
locality.
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished from other species of
Psychoda
(
Psychodocha
)
by the following combination of characteristics: eyes separated by 2.5 facet diameters; frons with large patch of alveoli at base and with pair of small patches of alveoli near eyes, triangular shaped; neck 1.0X length of base of flagellomeres; tergite 9 with large pseudospiracular opening; presence of triangular hypandrial plate covering aedeagus.
Description.
Male. Frons with 2 small triangular patches of alveoli near eyes (
Fig. 19
). Eye bridge with 4 facet rows; eyes separated by 2.5 facet diameters (
Fig. 19
); antenna with 14 flagellomeres, separated, 1st–10th nodiform (
Figs. 21–22
), 11th and 12th with neck (
Fig. 20
); flagellomere 14 with small basal neck (
Fig. 20
); scape cylindrical, 1.5X length of pedicel (
Fig. 21
); pedicel spherical (
Fig. 21
); ascoids lost in preparation. Palpus formula = 1.0:1.3:1.3:1.4 (
Fig. 22
). Labellum with 3 apical teeth (
Fig. 23
). Wing (
Fig. 24
) with short Sc; radial fork apical to medial fork; radial and medial fork complete; R2+3 fused to R4; base of M1+2 with somewhat circular swelling. Male terminalia (
Figs. 25–27
): Gonostylus with pointed apex having same length as gonocoxite. Tergite 9 rectangular, wider than long, with pseudospiracular opening (
Fig. 26
). Cercus short, club shaped from ventral view, 2.0X length of gonocoxite, with 1 apical tenaculum. Paramere curved apically, ending beyond apex of aedeagus. Aedeagal apodeme 1.5X length of aedeagus, slender; hypandrial plate triangular.
Female.
Unknown.
Collection.
The specimens from Dantilândia were collected in a light trap. The specimens from Itabuna were collected in a Malaise trap.
Distribution.
Brazil
: Bahia (Dantilândia, Itabuna).