Atrichobrunettia (Polibrunettia) amazonensis Bravo

Bravo, Freddy, 2006, The taxonomy of Neotropical Brunettiina (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae, Mormiini), with descriptions of ten new species from Brazil and comments on the generic classification of the subtribe, Zootaxa 1134, pp. 1-28 : 14-15

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.171921

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6258009

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scientific name

Atrichobrunettia (Polibrunettia) amazonensis Bravo
status

sp. nov.

Atrichobrunettia (Polibrunettia) amazonensis Bravo View in CoL , sp. nov. (Figs. 9–13)

Type material. BRAZIL, Amazonas, Manaus, Campus Universitário, holotype male, 07.I.1979, J.A. Rafael col. ( INPA); 13 paratype males, same locality, date, and collector as holotype ( INPA).

Etymology. amazonensis based on type locality.

Diagnosis. Radial fork situated apical to medial fork; apex of paramere with apical digitiform process; distiphallus with parallel shafts; aedeagal apodeme uniformly narrow, ending after anterior margin of gonocoxal bridge.

Atrichobrunettia amazonensis Bravo sp. nov. Head. Palpus. Wing.

Male terminalia, ventral. 13. Male terminalia, dorsal.

Description. Male. Eyes separated by 1.5 facet diameters; interocular suture incomplete (Fig. 9); antenna incomplete in all specimens studied; scape cylindrical, 1.5X length of pedicel (Fig. 9); pedicel spherical; flagellomeres nodiform, asymmetrical (Fig. 9); ascoids not visible. Palpus formula = 1.0:3.4:2.9:3.5 (Fig. 10). Sc short; radial fork apical to medial fork (Fig. 11). Male terminalia (Figs. 12, 13): sternite 9 U­shaped; posthypandrial plate 1/2 length of gonocoxite. Gonostyle 1.5X length of gonocoxite. Sternite 10 triangular. Tergite 10 triangular. Cercus with 9 apical tenacula with rounded tips. Apex of parameres ending after apex of aedeagus. Aedeagal apodeme narrow, ending after anterior margin of gonocoxal bridge.

Distribution. Brazil, Amazonas (Manaus).

INPA

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Atrichobrunettia

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