The West-Palearctic species of the genus Tonnoiriella Vaillant, 1971 (Diptera: Psychodidae, Psychodinae) Author Wagner, Rüdiger Author Withers, Phil text Zootaxa 2020 2020-01-22 4728 2 183 210 journal article 24286 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.2.2 a1c40b73-0c11-4863-a188-412c33523e02 1175-5326 3621117 AE4F8089-7D2E-4ABA-AA09-CD504705788A Tonnoiriella aurasica sp. nov. ( Figs. 12, 13 ) Material: 1♂ holotype (GBIFCH 00585266), Le Chelia , Aurès , Algérie , April 1952 (in the collection F. Vaillant de- posited in the Natural History Museum Lausanne ). The slide contains 3 wings, 1 abdomen with terminalia in ventral view, 1 abdomen with male terminalia in lateral view; abdomen in ventral view represents the holotype . Description : Because head and thorax of specimens are not preserved, description is incomplete. Wing length 1.84–1.94 mm , width 0.29–0.33 mm ; length to width relation 3.0–3.26. Male terminalia with hypandrium slightly widened in the middle ( Fig. 12 ). Gonocoxite slightly bent with about 10 strong short setae basally and 1 long seta in the basal third. Gonostylus is as long as or slightly longer than gonocoxite, almost straight. Basiphallus is racket-shaped, basally roundish. The morphologically ventral lobe almost straight reaching the apical end of the gonocoxite, tip bent laterally; dorsal lobe wider, end at about middle of gonocoxite with a short lateral spine, joined to the distiphallus by a less sclerotized flexible section. The ventral distiphallus is a specifically shaped cross sclerite, apical end with sharp tip, connection with basiphallus typically shaped, ventral part spearhead shaped ( Fig. 13 ), dorsal part broader with a sharp lateral edge. Parameral sheath wrinkled. Epandrium rhomboid with straight elongate epandrial processes, with 11–12 feathered tenacula, consistently decreasing in length, the basal about 2x longer than the apical ones; proctiger without specific features. Distribution : North Africa: Algeria (Monts de Aurès). Etymology: To avoid nomenclatorical troubles we follow the denomination of F. Vaillant; a figure of the species’ genitalia is provided in the ultimate Lieferung of ‘Die Fliegen der paläarktischen Region, 9.d Psychodidae , Psychodinae’ (Table CXX, Fig. 17 ), description missing. The nomination follows the Berber pronunciation: Jibâl al-Awrâs (Awras mountains). Remarks : The Aurès-mountains are situated south of the Tellatlas and east of the Sahara Atlas in Algeria , highest summit is Djebel Chélia ( 2.328 m a.s.l.). From Vaillant’s doctoral thesis (1955, pp. 205–206) additional information on the environment is available; he collected at Le Chélia on the 16 April 1952 , elevation 1.280 m in a madicolous zone. For this collection date and a later one he did not mention the presence of any ‘ Pericoma ’ species.