Psychoda (Tinearia) alternata Say

Bravo, Freddy, Cordeiro, Danilo & Chagas, Cinthia, 2006, Two new species and new records of Psychoda Latreille (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Brazil, with comments on supraspecific classification of the genus, Zootaxa 1298, pp. 1-15 : 5

Psychoda (Tinearia) alternata Say

Psychoda alternata Say, 1824: 358

Material examined. BRAZIL, Bahia, Salvador (13º 25’ S, 38º 30’ W), 4 females, 18.XII.2005, F. Bravo (MZUEFS); Salvador, 2 females and 2 males, 15.IV.2006, F. Bravo (MZUEFS).

Diagnosis. Psychoda alternata can be recognized by the following combination of characters: labellum with 5 teeth, 1 short and 4 long; presence of brown spots at tips of veins; antenna with 13 flagellomeres, 11th–13th fused; flagellomere 13 very small; ascoids Y­shaped with very short branches; cercus twice as long as ninth tergite with single tenaculum; aedeagus with lower shaft as large as distal half of main shaft ( Quate 1955); subgenital plate V­shaped.

Collection. All specimens were collected inside a house, in the bathroom.

Distribuition. Cosmopolitan; Brazil ( Salvador, new record).