Pintomyia (Pifanomyia)

Júnior, Antonio Marques Pereira, Marialva, Eric Fabrício, Julião, Genimar Rebouças, Pessoa, Felipe Arley Costa & Medeiros, Jansen Fernandes, 2019, Survey of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) in Guajará-Mirim State Park forest reserve, near the Brazil-Bolivian border, with a description of Pintomyia fiocruzi, a new sand fly species, Zootaxa 4691 (3), pp. 270-278 : 275-276

Key to males of Pintomyia (Pifanomyia) subgenus, Serrana group adapted from Galati (2018) and Oliveira et al. (2018)

1 Gonostylus without subterminal seta................................ Pintomyia salomoni Fuenzalida & Quintana

- Gonostylus with subterminal seta........................................................................ 2

2 Gonostylus with two stout spines (one apical and one superior external), and one very thin or atrophied spine on the inner sur- face of the basal half of the structure..................................................................... 3

- Gonostylus with three stout spines implanted as described above, but with an internal spine of equal size and caliber to the external spines...................................................................................... 11

3 Gonocoxite with one multi-branched basal seta..................................... Pintomyia piedraferroi (León)

- Gonocoxtie with one basal group (tuft) of three or more simple setae............................................ 4

4 Gonocoxite tuft with straight setae....................................................................... 5

- Gonocoxite tuft with curved setae and apexes directed toward the gonocoxite..................................... 7

5 Basal area of the paramere clearly more dilated than apical area due to a concavity on its dorsal margin..................................................................................................................................................................................................... Pintomyia fiocruzi sp. n.

- Paramere otherwise................................................................................... 6

6 Gonocoxite tuft with four or five loose setae implanted in a single row, some reaching the apex of the paramere.............................................................................. Pintomyia oresbia (Fairchild & Hertig)

- Gonocoxite tuft with three or four grouped setae, all of uniform size, reaching the middle of the paramere..................................................................................... Pintomyia ottolinai (Ortiz & Scorza)

7 Gonocoxite tuft with five setae.......................................................................... 8

- Gonocoxite tuft with six or seven setae...................................... Pintomyia odax (Fairchild & Hertig)

8 Gonocoxite dilated (or inflated), length less than twice the width. Paramere dilated with slender apex and slightly convex dorsal margin, length surpasses the apex of the epandrial lobes................. Pintomyia duckei (Oliveira, Alencar & Freitas)

- Other character combinations............................................................................ 9

9 Gonocoxite tuft with long setae, surpassing apex of paramere............................................................................................ Pintomyia guilvardae (Le Pont, Martinez, Torrez-Espejo & Dujardin)

- Gonocoxite tuft with short setae, not reaching the apex of paramere............................................ 10

10 Paramere: length of the apical area, covered with setae less than or equal to twice its width; dorso-basal margin with marked concavity. Gonocoxite tuft with one seta not aligned with the others....... Pintomyia robusta (Galati, Cáceres & Le Pont)

- Paramere: length of the apical area, covered with setae greater than 2.5 times their width; dorsal margin practically straight. Gonocoxite tuft with strictly lined setae................................ Pintomyia serrana (Damasceno & Arouck)

11 Paramere simple..................................................................................... 12

- Paramere bilobed.................................................................................... 15

12 Mesonotum pale..................................................................................... 13

- Mesonotum dark..................................................................................... 14

13 Gonocoxite tuft with 20 or more simple and straight setae, implanted on a small tubercle............................................................................................ Pintomyia christophei (Fairchild & Trapido)

- Gonocoxite tuft with four or five simple and curved setae, implanted directly on the surface of the gonocoxite.............................................................................. Pintomyia orestes (Fairchild & Trapido)

14 Gonocoxite with one basal tuft composed of 10 to 12 setae...................... Pintomyia diazi (Gonzales & Garcia)

- Gonocoxite with two tufts of setae in medium position........................ Pintomyia novoae (Gonzales & Garcia)

15 (11) Length of ventral lobe of the paramere equivalent to length of dorsal lobe; interlobular region with three to five setae........................................................................... Pintomyia torresi (Le Pont & Desjeux)

- Length of ventral lobe of the paramere evidently much shorter than the dorsal lobe; interlobular region with 10 or more setae.................................................................. Pintomyia boliviana (Velasco & Trapido)