The West-Palearctic species of the genus Tonnoiriella Vaillant, 1971 (Diptera: Psychodidae, Psychodinae)
Author
Wagner, Rüdiger
Author
Withers, Phil
text
Zootaxa
2020
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journal article
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Tonnoiriella arcuata
Ježek, 1997
(
Figs 48, 49
)
Tonnoiriella arcuata
Ježek, 1997
: Časopis Národniho Muzea v Praze Řada přirodovedna, 166: 1 16.
Material
:
1♂
holotype
, slide mounted: head, mothparts with 2 palpi, 2 antennae, thorax cut in half, 2 wings, legs, abdomen part, 1 stylus, aedeagus, epandrium with epandrial processes; left side white label: Caucasus, Pskhu,
27.6.1988
Ježek leg.; bowl shaped basin (village Pskhu). Swamp slopes nr. Stream Betaga,
2.000 m
a.s.l., mountain forest,
Alnus
,
Corylus
,
Sambucus
,
Fragaria
, Musci Hepaticae. Right
side red label:
Tonnoirella arcuata
Ježek 1999
,
holotype
Cat. No. 33663.
Paratypes
: Cat. Nos. 33666, 33667, 33669; collected with
holotype
(all in Natural History Museum
Prague
).
Description
: Head with eyebridge of 3 facet rows; distance between eyes 5.5 facet diameters; one row of postocular bristles. Antenna with scape, pedicel and 14 flagellomeres: absolute length 0.042-0.042-0.036-0.036-0.036- 0.036-0.034-0.034-0.03-0.028-0.022-0.026-0.026-0.018-0.02-
0.03 mm
; relative length 21-21-18-18-18-18-17-
17- 15-14-11
-13-13-9-10-15; terminal flagellomere with apiculus. Pairs of digitate ascoids on flagellomeres 5–11; one antenna with two flagellomeres fused so that the flagellum appears 13-segmented. Palpus segments absolute length: 0.048-0.068-
0.084-0.134 mm
; relative length 24-34-42-67.
Wing 2.95 times longer than wide; length
1.67 mm
. width
0.57 mm
.
Male terminalia with thin hypandrium with 2 small lateral angular projections. Gonocoxites (probably artificially compressed) are approximately
2x
longer than wide, with a long seta in the distal fourth, condyles pentagonal. Gonostyli 1.3 times longer than gonocoxites, slightly bent. Parameres small, not clearly discernable.
Aedeagus (
Fig. 48
) with short basiphallus sclerite; ventral arm of basiphallus bilobed, laterally connected to a U-shaped ventral distiphallus sclerite. Dorsal lobe of basiphallus broad straight, no distiphallus sclerite attached.
Epandrium (
Fig. 49
) not clearly detectable; epandrial processes elongate, almost straight with 8 tenacula, apical ones shorter than basal ones.
Distribution
: Caucasus mountains.
Remarks
: A species, easy to identify by the the double-headed hypandrium, and the distiphallus sclerite, almost semicircular and evenly bent.