Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen & Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago, 2023, Revisionary notes on Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971, with the first record of the genus from the Afrotropical region (Diptera, Psychodidae), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 70 (1), pp. 121-127 : 121

Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971

Feuerborniella Vaillant, 1971: 119. Type species: Psychoda obscura Tonnoir, 1919.

Diagnosis

(modified from Vaillant (1974) and Ibáñez-Bernal (2004)). Eyes separated; flagellomeres 11-14 reduced in size, fused or separated; labellum of both sexes fleshy, carrying spines and hairs, but not blunt teeth; wing membrane without pilosity; R5 ending in wing apex; male genitalia with gonocoxites widely separated; aedeagus and parameres symmetrical; surstylus longer than epandrium and carrying single terminal tenaculum on the surstylus.

Remarks.

Apart from Feuerborniella , two other genera of Psychodini taxa have a fleshy labellum and a single terminal tenaculum of the surstylus. Nielseniella Vaillant, 1971 has asymmetric aedeagus and parameres, setae on the wing membrane and often one of the posterior branches of the ascoids reduced (as in Threticus Eaton, 1904). The Neotropical/Nearctic Quatiella Botosaneanu & Vaillant, 1970 is separated from Feuerborniella on the gonocoxites touching medially and the surstyli being as short as or shorter than the tenacula they carry.

Species included.

F. amblytes (Quate, 1999), F. ancepitis (Quate, 1996), F. bicuspis (Quate, 1996), F. ensiger (Quate, 1996) comb. nov., F. hamata (Quate, 1996), F. longistylus (Quate, 1996) comb. nov., F. morogorica Wagner & Andersen, 2007 comb. nov., F. obscura (Tonnoir, 1919), F. pandiculata (Quate, 1996), F. plaumanni (Duckhouse, 1968), F. retusus (Quate, 1996), F. sinefurcata sp. nov., F. spathipenis (Duckhouse, 1968), F. veracruzana Ibañez-Bernal, 2004.