Psychoda zetoscota Quate

Cordeiro, Danilo, Bravo, Freddy & De, Claudio J. B., 2011, Taxonomy of Brazilian Psychoda Latreille, 1796 (Diptera, Psychodidae) with the description of thirteen new species, Zootaxa 3101, pp. 1-37 : 18

Psychoda zetoscota Quate

( Figs 34–35 )

Psychoda zetoscota Quate, 1959b: 214 . Type locality: Panama, Canal Zone (Fort Claiton).

Diagnosis. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres, 12th and 13th fused; radial and medial forks incomplete; male gonostylus slightly curved interiorly and homogeneously pilose; female subgenital plate rectangular, longer than wide, pilose except on the base, apical concavity circular.

Additional characters. Hair patch of frons extending to facet row 1; 6–7 supra-ocular setae; interocular suture absent; clypeus with no conspicuous alveoli; frontoclypeal suture absent; labellum with 3 or 4 apical teeth and 2 lateral setae; distitarsus with apical projection ( Fig. 34 ); female subgenital plate 1.4 longer than wide, pilose except basally; subgenital plate internally with a semi-circular micropilose structure and a pair of thin structures lateral to the genital digit ( Fig. 35 ); genital chamber oval, slightly longer than wide; male gonostylus pilose, little longer than gonocoxite; anterior end of basiphallus in T; gonocoxal bridge well developed, forming a bilobed plaque ventral to distiphallus; tergite X with apical micropilosity.

Material examined. Type material: holotype Ƥ, Fort Claiton, Zona do Canal, 02.ii.1956, Luminosa, LWQ ( USNM). Other specimems: 1 Ƥ BRAZIL, Pará, Santarém, Ch. N. S. Nazaré, km 13, mata, 27.xi.1998, 8 cdc, col. RF /RAN/FLS ( INPA); 3 Ƥ BRAZIL, Bahia, Senhor do Bonfim, Serra da Maravilha, 05.vii.2005, col. F. Bravo (MZUEFS); 2 3 Bahia, Cachoeira, Fzda. Villa Rial, 14.V.2004, col. F. Bravo (MZUEFS); 2 Ƥ, same locality, 24.V.2004, col. F. Bravo (MZUEFS); 1 Ƥ Bahia, Cachoeira, Faz. Villa Rial, 20.vii.2004, col. F. Bravo (MZUEFS); 1 Ƥ Bahia, Ituberá, Pacangê, 09–10.vi.2007, Luminosa, col. E. Alvim & Equipe Ecopol. (MZUEFS); 1 Ƥ BRA- ZIL, Paraná, Antonina, Res. Sapitanduva , 02.iii.1987, Malaise trap, Profaupar 4.5 ( DZUP).

Distribution. Panama, Trinidad, Brazil (Pará, Bahia and Paraná).

Comments. The number of flagellomeres is similar to what is found in the subgenus Ypsydocha, but the 11th and 12th flagellomeres are not fused as described for this subgenus. This is the first record of this species in the states of Pará and Paraná.

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 35. Psychoda serraorobonensis: 32. Distitarsus. 33. Subgenital plate, internal ornamentation. Psychoda zetoscota: 34. Distitarsus. 35. Subgenital plate, internal ornamentation. [Scale 0.06 mm].