Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri ( Wagner, 1979 ) Wagner, 1979

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2015, The Afrotropical genera of Psychodini: Redefinition of the tribe, first Afrotropical record of Perithreticus Vaillant, 1973 and description of Soeliella gen. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), Zootaxa 3986 (1), pp. 115-126 : 122

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.1.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:261139E0-5D38-4C68-89C4-01138273AC4A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6116599

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C7E4C79-FF88-7E56-FF7F-72DFFA41FEA5

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Plazi

scientific name

Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri ( Wagner, 1979 )
status

comb. nov.

Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri ( Wagner, 1979) View in CoL comb.nov.

Psychoda boettgeri Wagner, 1979: 61 View in CoL

Threticus boettgeri ( Wagner, 1979) View in CoL — Kvifte 2012: 43

Material examined. Holotype ♂. Democratic Republic of Congo: Kalengo. No date. K. Böttger leg. Coll. RW Diagnosis. See key.

Description. Head ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A) slightly longer than broad; vertex densely setose, slightly longer than one third of head length; single row of 6 ocular setae present; eyebridge of four facet rows; interocular suture very obtusely inverted v-shaped; interocular distance equal to 2 facet diameters; frontal scar patch inverted T-shaped, reaching interocular suture; length of palpomeres 60: 110: 120: 124; clypeus with dorsal suture complete; labellum flat, with two setiform setae, one lateral digitiform seta and a terminal row of three digitiform setae ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 D); antennae of holotype incomplete; scape slender, cylindrical; pedicel stout, globular; flagellomeres not preserved; length of scape and pedicel 80: 60; thorax without specialized allurement organs; anepisternum covered with hair scars; anepimeron triangular with lower margin projecting posteriorly; final tarsomere of prolegs with dorsal protuberance; wing ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B) lanceolate, 1.56 mm long, 0.54 mm wide; membrane without pilosity or setae; base of R5 and area between C and R1 infuscated; C with two breaks, thickened basally to humeral break and just distally of subcostal break; Sc short; radial fork distal of medial fork, both forks incomplete at bases; CuA2 at level with radial fork; both basal cells open; base of Costa and CuA2 thickened; terminalia asymmetrical ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C); hypandrium band-like, angulate distally, posteriorly expanded; gonocoxite elongate cylindrical, longer than gonostylus; gonostylus narrow tapering with scattered spiniform sensillae on both surfaces; basiphallus laterally compressed, narrow in dorsal aspect, basally slightly expanded; with aperture at distiphallic joint very small; distiphallus narrow, rotated 90°; parameres paired, slightly asymmetrical, consisting of a conical basal body with an elongate medial needle-shaped protuberance; protuberance on left paramere externally angulate, hook-shaped; both parameres reaching slightly longer than aedeagus; epandrium ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 E) slightly longer than broad with very short medioanterior processes pointing anteriorly; ventral epandrial plate not discernible on specimen; surstyli cylindrical, comparatively straight, distally expanded with single row of 12 tenacula; hypoproct about half as long as epandrium, round with short anterior protuberance, finely pilose; epiproct small, oval, embedded in hypoproct.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Rhipidopsychoda

Loc

Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri ( Wagner, 1979 )

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen 2015
2015
Loc

Threticus boettgeri (

Kvifte 2012: 43
2012
Loc

Psychoda boettgeri

Wagner 1979: 61
1979
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