Psychomasina armata Ježek, 2004

Kvifte, Gunnar M., 2015, Review of the genus Psychomasina (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), with descriptions of two new species, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 55 (2), pp. 495-503 : 497

Psychomasina armata Ježek, 2004

( Fig. 12 )

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♁, ‘ MADAGASCAR: Toamasina, 2.5 km SE of Amboditafonana (17° 27’37’’ S 48° 45’36’’ E), 850 m. a.s.l., 28.–30.I.2000, P. Chvojka leg. (blacklight)ʼ. (coll. National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, slide cat. no. 34241).

Diagnostic characters. Psychomasina armata can be distinguished from all other Psychomasina species on the eyebridges separated by two facet diameters, wing veins R 3, M 3 and CuA 2 with subapical oval expansions, the gonostylus distinctly hooked terminally and the phallomeres of the aedeagus lack lateral spines but has a row of mesal teeth ( JEŽEK 2004: Figs 31, 33, 35, 42; see also http://www.morphbank.net/Browse/ByImage/?tsn=999022223 from TKOČ et al. 2014).

Figures

Figs 6–12. 6–9 – Psychomasina violina sp. nov., holotype, male. 6 – head; 7 – wing; 8 – aedeagus and gonopods; 9 – epandrium and proctiger. 10–12 – aedeagal joint shape in Psychomasina spp.: 10 – P. paedagogica sp. nov., 11 – P. violina sp. nov., 12 – P. armata Ježek, 2004 (Fig. 12 redrawn from JEŽEK 2004). For abbreviations see Material and methods. Length of scale bars in μm: 100 (6, 8, 9) 250 (7)