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 puntarenas
Araújo & Bravo
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 6A–F
)
Diagnosis.
Gonostylus slightly bifurcate apically, sclerotized; m-cu present; two pairs of curved apically truncate projections in the aedeagal complex; ejaculatory apodeme the same length as gonostylus.
FIGURES 6A–F.
Trichomyia puntarenas
sp. nov.
A. Scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres; B. Palpus; C. Last flagellomere; D. Right wing; E. Cerci, epandrium and hypropoct; F. Male terminalia, dorsal.
Description. Male.
Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape subcylindrical and pedicel subspherical; flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric; ascoids 1.3 times the length of flagellomere (
Fig. 6A
); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by a suture (
Fig. 6C
). Palpus formula 1.0:0.5:0.7 (
Fig. 6B
). Wing. R4+5 with base unsclerotized, r-m unsclerotized and m-cu present (
Fig. 6D
). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused, with medial posterior expansion. Arm of gonocoxite pilose with bristles along the medial margin. Gonostylus projected diagonally toward the apex, with slowly bifurcated apex. One pair of curved projections in the aedeagal complex truncated apically. Aedeagus simple ending near the base of the projections in the aedeagal complex. Ejaculatory apodeme the same length as gonostylus (
Fig. 6F
). Epandrium pilose, apically wider than basally. Cercus pilose, subtriangular. Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (
Fig. 6E
).
Female.
Unknown.
Material examined.
Costa Rica
,
Puntarenas
, Monteverde, Est. Biol. Monteverde,
28. IV–01.V.97
,
holotype
♂, L.W. Quate (
MZFS
).
Etymology.
The epithet
puntarenas
is based on the
type
locality
Distribution.
Costa Rica
.