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
4130
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journal article
38704
10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1
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1175-5326
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Trichomyia ituberensis
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 13A–I
)
Diagnosis.
Projections in the aedeagal complex complex, a distal pair with a hook-like apex; the proximal pair with three expansions, all shorter than the distal; ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.7 times the length of gonostylus; cercus with apical rod-like bristles.
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape slightly longer than pedicel; pedicel subspherical; basal flagellomeres pyriform (
Fig. 13A
); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by a suture (
Fig. 13H
); ascoids paired, 1.5 times the length of flagellomeres (
Fig. 13G
). Palpus with three segments; 1st segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.7:0.9 (
Fig. 13B
). Wing. R4+5 articulated at R3; r-m present; m-cu absent (
Fig. 13C
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium fused with gonocoxites. Arm of gonocoxites curved in lateral view (
Fig. 13E
) and convergent in dorsal view (
Fig. 13F
) with some apical, rod-like bristles. Gonostylus articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare. Projections in the aedeagal complex complex, a distal pair with a hook-like apex; the proximal pair with three expansions, all shorter than the distal. Aedeagus bifid, ending at the same level of distal projection of aedeagal complex (
Fig. 13F
). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.7 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium wider than long (
Fig.
13I
). Cercus pilose, apex narrower than base in lateral view with four apical, elongated and rod-like bristles (
Fig. 13D
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Brazil
, Bahia, Ituberá municipality,
12.VI.2002
,
holotype
♂, F. Bravo leg. (
MZFS
).
Etymology.
The epithet
ituberensi
s
is allusive to the
type
locality for this species.
Distribution.
Brazil—Bahia.