Trichomyia crinita 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 : 44

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080097

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A7ED58-F86D-6C38-6B98-FB8BB92DA967

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Plazi

scientific name

Trichomyia crinita Araújo & Bravo
status

sp. nov.

Trichomyia crinita Araújo & Bravo View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 24A–G View FIGURES 24 A – G )

Diagnosis. Gonocoxite with two pairs of elongated expansions; arm of gonocoxite with an expansion spur-shaped with sclerotized apex and with elongated bristles; one pair of filiform projections in the aedeagal complex; ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus; cercus with two rod-like bristles.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape and pedicel subspherical; flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric ( Fig. 24A View FIGURES 24 A – G ); ascoids 1.4 times longer than the flagellomere; 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by suture ( Fig. 24B View FIGURES 24 A – G ). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.5:0.7 ( Fig. 24E View FIGURES 24 A – G ). Wing. R4+5 with base unsclerotized; r-m unsclerotized and m-cu absent ( Fig. 24D View FIGURES 24 A – G ). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with two pairs of elongated expansions, one medial plate-like and other basal and tubular. Arm of gonocoxite with an expansion spur-shaped with sclerotized apex and with elongated bristles. ( Figs. 24C, 24G View FIGURES 24 A – G ). Gonostylus digitiform, slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, curved, with rounded tip. Presence of one pair of filiform projections in the aedeagal complex. Aedeagus with pointed apex ( Fig. 24G View FIGURES 24 A – G ). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium subcircular. Cercus with an apical expansion with two rod-like bristles. Hypoproct with apical micropilosity ( Fig. 24F View FIGURES 24 A – G ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Amazonas, Manacapuru, 27.XI.2001, holotype ♂, without name of collector ( MZFS).

Etymology. From Latim, crinita = comet, refers to the shape of arm of gonocoxite.

Distribution. Brazil—Amazonas.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Trichomyia

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