The Psychodidae (Diptera) of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, with a records overview of volcanic islands fauna
Author
Vieira, Gabriel Santos
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Salvador, BA, Brazil & Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
Author
Bravo, Freddy
Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil
Author
Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, Laboratório de Estudos dos Invertebrados, Caxias, MA, Brazil
Author
Rafael, José Albertino
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-11-18
5538
4
322
338
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.4.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5538.4.2
1175-5326
14611780
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Psychoda savaiiensis
Edwards
Psychoda savaiiensis
Edwards, 1928: 74
—Original description.
Psychoda rarotongensis
Satchell, 1953: 183
.
Psychoda lucia
Quate, 1954: 349
.
Falsologima savaiiensis
(Edwards)
:
Ježek & Van Harten, 1996: 73
.
Psychoda
(
Falsologima
)
savaiiensis
Edwards
:
Bravo
et al
. 2006
—Geographic distribution;
Cordeiro
et al
. 2011
—Diagnosis and new records.
Type
locality.
Samoa
Islands
,
Savaii
, Salailua.
Distribution.
Tropicopolitan
.
Remarks.
Easily recognized by the antenna with 13 flagellomeres and a pair of trident-shaped ascoids, the 12th flagellomere is reduced to a vestigial segment, distitarsus without apical projection. Males of this species have long, slender, and curved epandrial appendages, and the females display a distinctive rosette-shaped ornamentation on the subgenital plate.
Material examined. Slide-mounted.
(
41 specimens
)
Brasil
, PE,
Fernando
de Noronha
,
3º51’17"S
32º26’26"W
,
Capim-Açu
,
1-9.vi.2019
, Malaise G, J.A. Rafael, F.Limeira-de-Oliveira, L. C. Castro; Same locality,
9-24.vi.2019
;
8- 23.vii.2019
.
Alcohol.
(
13 specimens
) Same locality,
24.vi-8.vii.2019
;
7-21.viii.2019
;
25.ix-8.x2019
;
11-27.xi.2019
;
9-27.xii.2019
;
10-23.i.2020
;
23.i-12.ii.2020
;
1-15.iii.2020
(
MZFS
)
.