Maruina (Maruina) menina Bravo & Lago

Camico, Jéssica Luna, Cordeiro, Danilo Pacheco & Chagas, Cínthia, 2019, Maruina Müller, 1895 (Diptera: Psychodidae): description of four new species from Brazil, with revised diagnoses for the genus and subgenera, Zootaxa 4652 (2), pp. 296-316 : 307

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.4
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scientific name	Maruina (Maruina) menina Bravo & Lago
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Maruina (Maruina) menina Bravo & Lago View in CoL

Maruina (Maruina) menina Bravo & Lago, 2003: 395-398 View in CoL ; Bravo & Araújo, 2018 (Distributional records).

Diagnosis. Combination of the following characters: R 1 weakly sclerotized; aedegal sheath with a large expanded sclerotized arch subapically; aedeagus with a symmetrical group of long and thin spines only, similar to M. (M.) garota ; female hypoginium large at base, strongly narrowed before apical lobulae.

Material examined. Type material: holotype: ♂ BRAZIL, Bahia, Ituberá , 12.vi.2002, col. F. Bravo ( MZFS) ; Paratypes 3 ♀♀ same data .

Distribution. Brazil (Bahia).

Holotype condition. Slide mounted, over clarified, antenna incomplete.

Remarks. Bravo & Lago (2003) stated that R 1 doesn’t reach C; however, based on our examination of the type material, it actually does. See remarks of M. (M.) garota for a complete differential diagnosis.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Psychodidae
Genus	Maruina