Tonnoira bitalea Quate

Chagas-Vieira, Cínthia, 2012, New records of Tonnoira Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Brazilian Amazon with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3318, pp. 51-56 : 51-53

Tonnoira bitalea Quate

( Figs. 1–7 )

Tonnoira bitalea Quate, 1999: 429 , Fig. 5 J–K.

Material examined. BRASIL, Amazonas, Ipixuna, Rio Gregrório com[munity] Lago Grande, 07°10’11.7’’ S 70°49’10.3’’ W, 18–20.v.2011, Malaise [trap], J.A. Rafael, J.T. Câmara, F. Silva, A. Somavilla, C. Gonçalves leg. (3 INPA).

Diagnosis. Eyes separated by little less than 1 facet diameter; eye bridge with 4 facet rows except median margin with only 3 rows; interocular suture as inverted Y-shaped, stem longer than arm ( Fig. 1 ). Flagellomere 1 elongate, fusiform, nearly as long as scape and pedicel combined ( Fig. 2 ). Proportion of palp segments = 1.0:2.3:2.7:2.8 ( Fig. 3 ). Wing brown with radial fork and medial fork complete ( Fig. 4 ). Gonocoxal apodeme with pair of slender, acute processes flanking aedeagus and extending nearly to tip of aedeagus ( Fig. 5 ); paramere bluntly rounded, slightly shorter than gonocoxal processes ( Fig. 5 ); epandrium rather subrectangular with two foramina near anterior margin ( Fig. 6 ); cercus with 2 tenacula, basal separated from apical by more than width of cercus ( Fig. 7 ).

Variation. Male: Aedeagus as long as paramere.

Distribution. Panama and Brazil (new record).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Tonnoira bitalea Quate, additional material 3: 1. Head; 2. Antenna: scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres; 3. Palpus; 4. Wing; 5. Male terminalia, dorsal view; 6. Male terminalia, ventral view; 7. Cercus.