Nototelmatoscopus Satchell, 1953

Ježek, Jan, 2010, Further new taxa of non-biting moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Malaysia, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 235-252 : 240-242

Nototelmatoscopus Satchell, 1953 stat. nov.

Nototelmatoscopus Satchell, 1953: 398 (subgenus of Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904 ). Type species: Telmatoscopus obscurus Satchell, 1953 , original designation.

Telmatoscopus (Nototelmatoscopus) : TONNOIR (1953: 419); QUATE & QUATE (1967: 51); JEŽEK (1989: 95).

Note. DUCKHOUSE (1966: 183), DUCKHOUSE (1973 a: 233), VAILLANT (1972: 94), and DUCKHOUSE & LEWIS (1989: 172)

considered Nototelmatoscopus as a junior synonym of a broadly conceived Peripsychoda Enderlein, 1935 .

Diagnosis. Ascoids of flagellomeres needle-shaped, multiple; insertions of ascoids numerous, arranged in a ring ( Fig. 28 ); flagellar nodes asymmetrical, excentric and bulbose ( Figs. 21 , 27 ); area of insertions of retinaculi relatively small (8–30), circular or hardly elliptical ( Figs 25, 26 ).

Differential diagnosis. Peripsychoda differs from Nototelmatoscopus in having ascoids fan-shaped, paired, flagellar nodes symmetrical, not excentric and not bulbose, high number of retinaculi (35–44), area of insertions of retinaculi large, conspicuously prolonged ( Table 1).

Subgenera and species included. The genus Nototelmatoscopus in the present sense includes three subgenera: Nototelmatoscopus s. str. (17 valid species from Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea), Oscoreopus Ježek, 1989 (three species from Papua New Guinea) and Jozifekia subgen. nov. (one species from Kalimantan). The differential characters of all three taxa are summarized in Table 1; the list of species is given below.

Comments on the status. Many species of the Oriental Psychodinae were originally described in the genus Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904 , which currently forms a heterogenous assemblage of more than 220 species distributed worldwide. Ongoing revisions of these species allow to transfer them to other described or newly established genera (see, e.g., CURLER 2009).

The taxonomical position of Peripsychoda was discussed and its intergeneric relationships and list of species given by JEŽEK (1983, 1987, 1990a, 2004b).

Figures

Figs. 27–36. Nototelmatoscopus (Jozifekia) sasakawai sp. nov. (J). 27 – apical antennomeres; 28 – middle flagellomere; 29 – terminal lobe of labium; 30 – labium, lateral view; 31 – maxilla; 32 – epipharynx; 33 – thoracic sclerites, lateral view; 34 – left half of haltere; 35 – claw of P1; 36 – aedeagal complex and gonopods, dorsal view. Scales = 0.05 mm (Figs. 27–33, 35) and 0.1 mm (Figs. 34, 36).

Figs. 19–26. Nototelmatoscopus (Jozifekia) sasakawai sp. nov. (J). 19 – head; 20 – facets; 21 – basal antennomeres; 22 – maxillary palpus; 23 – aedeagal complex, gonocoxite and gonostylus, lateral view; 24 – detail of apex of gonostylus; 25 – epandrium and surstylus, lateral view; 26 – epandrium and surstyli, dorsal view. Scales = 0.05 mm (Figs. 20–22, 24) and 0.1 mm (Figs. 19, 23, 25–26).