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
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1
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Trichomyia crinita
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 24A–G
)
Diagnosis.
Gonocoxite with two pairs of elongated expansions; arm of gonocoxite with an expansion spur-shaped with sclerotized apex and with elongated bristles; one pair of filiform projections in the aedeagal complex; ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus; cercus with two rod-like bristles.
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape and pedicel subspherical; flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric (
Fig. 24A
); ascoids 1.4 times longer than the flagellomere; 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by suture (
Fig. 24B
). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.5:0.7 (
Fig. 24E
). Wing. R4+5 with base unsclerotized; r-m unsclerotized and m-cu absent (
Fig. 24D
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with two pairs of elongated expansions, one medial plate-like and other basal and tubular. Arm of gonocoxite with an expansion spur-shaped with sclerotized apex and with elongated bristles. (
Figs. 24C, 24G
). Gonostylus digitiform, slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, curved, with rounded tip. Presence of one pair of filiform projections in the aedeagal complex. Aedeagus with pointed apex (
Fig. 24G
). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium subcircular. Cercus with an apical expansion with two rod-like bristles. Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (
Fig. 24F
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Brazil
, Amazonas, Manacapuru,
27.XI.2001
,
holotype
♂, without name of collector (
MZFS
).
Etymology.
From Latim,
crinita
= comet, refers to the shape of arm of gonocoxite.
Distribution.
Brazil—Amazonas.