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 1 1 76 journal article 38704 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1 118f2c8d-b41e-4787-929d-df6e254a1c3f 1175-5326 262717 10239517-A20C-4C42-BFD7-8AC6079C76A2 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.