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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Trichomyia bahiensis
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 16A–I
)
Diagnosis.
Gonocoxite arm lobe-like, upright in lateral view and with few short spinform bristles in the medial surface; gonostylus plate-like; one pair of projections in the aedeagal complex connected/joined by a thin ventral membrane; ejaculatory apodeme short, 0.4 times the length of gonocoxite; cercus with few small spatulate bristles near the apex.
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna: scape subcylindrical, pedicel subspherical; flagellum with 13 flagellomeres, 1st to 12th flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric (
Fig. 16A
); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by suture (
Fig. 16C
); ascoids 1.1 times the length of a flagellomere (
Fig. 16B
). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.7 (
Fig. 16D
). Wing. R4+5 incomplete at base; r-m and m-cu absent (
Fig. 16E
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused. Gonocoxites with arm lobe-like, upright in lateral view and with few short spinform bristles in the medial surface (
Figs. 16G,
16I
). Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, plate-like. Presence of one pair of projections in the aedeagal complex ending at the same level of aedeagus, united by a thin ventral membrane. Aedeagus filiform (
Figs. 16G, 16H
). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 0.4 times the length of gonocoxite. Epandrium with posterior margin larger than the anterior margin. Cercus ovoid (
Figs. 16F, 16H
); dorsal surface of cercus with few small spatulate bristles near the apex (
Fig. 16H
). Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (
Fig. 16F
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Brazil
, Bahia, Ituberá municipality,
12.VI.2002
,
holotype
♂, F. Bravo leg. (
MZFS
); 5
paratypes
:
3♂
, Bahia, Porto Seguro municipality, Estação Vera Cruz,
05.XII.2002
, F. Bravo leg. (
MZFS
);
1 ♂
, Bahia, Cachoeira municipality, Fazenda. Villa Rial,
25.IV.2004
, F. Bravo leg. (
MZFS
);
1 ♂
, Fazenda Villa Rial,
20.VII.2004
, F. Bravo leg. (
MZFS
).
Etymology.
The epithet
bahiensis
refers to the
type
locality.
Distribution.
Brazil—Bahia.