Balbagathis sylvatica Quate, 1996

Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, Suárez-Landa, Teresa & Inecol, 2015, Balbagathis janjezeki sp. nov., a new species of moth fly from Mexico (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 485-494 : 493

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5372683

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:35D8EF83-AB83-4AFF-BBC6-9852A051C81FR

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5332415

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE3687BF-FFA3-FFC4-FE2D-1772FECDDC3A

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scientific name

Balbagathis sylvatica Quate, 1996
status

 

Balbagathis sylvatica Quate, 1996 View in CoL

Balbagathis sylvatica Quate, 1996: 32 View in CoL (female description). Type locality: Costa Rica, Heredia, Estación de Biología La Selva.

Balbagathis sylvatica: COLLANTES View in CoL & MARTÍNEZ- ORTEGA (1999): 25 ( Nicaragua records); QUATE & BROWN (2004): 66 (diagnosis); IBÁÑEZ- BERNAL (2008): 92 (Mexican record, description of male, male and female figures).

Material examined. MEXICO: VERACRUZ: Municipality of Misantla, Paso Blanco (19°51′55.8″N, 96°52′23.4″W, 600 m a.s.l.), 25.ii.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria IV, col. Malaise trap, 3 JJ 1 ♀ GoogleMaps ; 14.v.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria IV, col., CDC UV ligth trap, 5 JJ ; 15.v.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria IV, col. Malaise trap, 6 JJ, same but with CDC UV ligth trap, 2 JJ 1 ♀, Municipality of Atzalan, Plan de Arroyos (19°53′41″N, 97°06′30″W, 820 m a.s.l.), 16.v.2008, Jurisdicción sanitaria IV, col. Malaise trap, 7 JJ 1 ♀ GoogleMaps ; 2.ix.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria V, col. Malaise trap, 5JJ, CDC UV ligth trap, 1♀. Municipality of Vega de Alatorre, E. Carranza (19°57′59.8″N, 96°36′39.8″W, 60 m a.s.l.), 13.v.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria IV, col. Malaise trap, 1J. Municipality of Teocelo, Texin (19°22′0.2.2″N, 97°00′04.6″W, 1260 m a.s.l.), 12.ii.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria V, col., Malaise trap, 2 JJ GoogleMaps ; 13.v.2008, Jurisdicción Sanitaria V, col., Malaise trap, 1 J ; same but 14.v.2008, 1 J. All specimens are deposited in the Psychodidae collection of Instituto de Ecología, A. C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico .

Remarks. IBÁÑEZ- BERNAL (2008) erroneously indicated 1994, instead of 1996 as the date of description of Balbagathis sylvatica . In all specimens studied here, the hypandrium is apparently a very narrow plate, just as a band, and the posterior reinforcement projections are free and pointed.

UV

Departamento de Biologia de la Universidad del Valle

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Balbagathis

Loc

Balbagathis sylvatica Quate, 1996

Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, Suárez-Landa, Teresa & Inecol 2015
2015
Loc

Balbagathis sylvatica

QUATE L. W. 1996: 32
1996
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