Trichomyia hileiana 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 : 49

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080105

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A7ED58-F876-6C23-6B98-FF37B99CAABB

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scientific name

Trichomyia hileiana Araújo & Bravo
status

sp. nov.

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

( Figs. 27A View FIGURES 27 A – G –H)

Diagnosis. M2 not reaching M1; bifurcated basal expansion on gonocoxite; two pairs of arms of gonocoxite, the dorsal larger and broader than the ventral, both with bristles; ejaculatory apodeme 0.8 times the length of gonostylus; cercus with an elongated projection with two apical bristles.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; cylindrical scape; subquadrangular pedicel; basal flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric ( Fig. 27A View FIGURES 27 A – G ); ascoids 1.2 times as long as a flagellomere; 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by a suture ( Fig. 27F View FIGURES 27 A – G ). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.5 ( Fig. 27B View FIGURES 27 A – G ). Wing. M2 not reaching M1; R4+5 incomplete at base; r-m and m-cu absent ( Fig. 27C View FIGURES 27 A – G ). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused with bifurcated basal expansion and lateroposterior bristles. Two pairs of arms of gonocoxites, the dorsal larger and broader than the ventral and both with bristles ( Figs. 27D, 27 View FIGURES 27 A – G H). Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, truncated. Aedeagal complex with one pair of Hshaped fused projections. Aedeagus ending at midline of projections in the aedeagal complex ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 27 A – G H). Ejaculatory apodeme 0.8 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium longer than wide, subcircular. Cercus digitiform with an elongated projection with two apical bristles ( Figs. 27D, 27E, 27G View FIGURES 27 A – G ). Hypoproct with apical setulae ( Fig. 27G View FIGURES 27 A – G ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Amazonas, Presidente Figueiredo, Pitinga, 04.XII.1998, holotype ♂, RQ, LMC leg. ( MZFS); 37 paratypes: 1 ♂, same locality as holotype, 15.XII.1998, RR, LMS leg. ( INPA); 2 ♂, same locality as holotype, 06.X.1998, without name of collector ( MZFS); 3 ♂, same locality as holotype, Km 75, 25– 27.VII.1997, without name of collector ( INPA); 22 ♂, same locality, date and colectors as holotype ( MZFS); 3 ♂, Amazonas, Manacapuru, Cajatuba, Km 69/3, 9.X.1998, without name of collector ( INPA); 1 ♂, Pará, Santarém, Km13, N.S. Nazaré, Com. Santa Maria, 27.XI.1998, FF, RDN cols ( MZFS); 3 ♂, Pará, Santarém, Estrada para Alter do Chão, Jurupari, Km 1315, 25.XI.1998, RF, RAN, FLS cols ( MZFS); 1 ♂, Roraima, Pitinga, 13– 15.XII.1997, RQ, RN, PE cols ( MZFS); 1 ♂, Amazonas, Manacapuru, Estrada do Cajatuba, Sitio do Sr. Simplicio, 24–25.IV.1998, without name of collector ( INPA);

Etymology. The epithet hileiana refers to the erudite term, given by Alexander Humboldt to the old province which included the forests of the Amazon.

Distribution. Brazil—Amazonas, Pará, Roraima.

LMC

Instituto de Investiga��o Cient�fica de Mozambique

LMS

Carolina Biological Supply Company

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Trichomyia

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