Trichomyia araguaensis Araújo & Bravo, 2016

Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), Zootaxa 4130 (1), pp. 1-76 : 33-34

Trichomyia araguaensis Araújo & Bravo sp. nov.

( Figs. 15A –F)

Diagnosis. R4+5 complete; basal expansions of gonocoxites with rounded tips that cross in the apex, medially directed; arm of gonocoxites expanded in the base, with apicolateral bristles and two apical bristles thicker than the others, stare-like; ejaculatory apodeme about the same length as gonostylus.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape subcylindrical, pedicel subspherical; flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric; ascoids 2.1 times the length of the flagellomere ( Fig. 15A ); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by suture ( Fig. 15C ). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.6 ( Fig. 15B ). Wing. R4+5 complete; r-m and m-cu absent ( Fig. 15D ). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with basal expansion with rounded tips that cross in the apex, medially directed. Arm of gonocoxites expanded in the base, with apicolateral bristles and two apical bristles thicker than the others, stare-like. Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated dorsally to gonocoxite, bare and subtriangular. Presence of one pair of subtriangular projections in the aedeagal complex, convergent apically. Aedeagus ending at midlle of projections in the aedeagal complex ( Fig. 15 F). Ejaculatory apodeme about as long as gonostylus. Epandrium lost in the specimen studied. Cercus elongated and pilose ( Fig. 15E ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Venezuela, Aragua, 10 Km N El Limon, holotype ♂, 19.IX.1993, L.W. Quate leg. ( MZFS)

Etymology. The epithet refersto the type locality.

Distribution. Venezuela—Aragua.

Figures

FIGURES 15 A – E. Trichomyia araguaensis sp. nov. A. Scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres; B. Palpus; C. Right wing; D. Cercus E. Male terminalia, dorsal.