Psychoda (Tinearia) alternata Say

Bravo, Freddy, Cordeiro, Danilo & Chagas, Cinthia, 2006, Two new species and new records of Psychoda Latreille (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Brazil, with comments on supraspecific classification of the genus, Zootaxa 1298, pp. 1-15 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.173590
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3501693
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scientific name	Psychoda (Tinearia) alternata Say
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Psychoda (Tinearia) alternata Say View in CoL

Psychoda alternata Say, 1824: 358 View in CoL

Material examined. BRAZIL, Bahia, Salvador (13º 25’ S, 38º 30’ W), 4 females, 18.XII.2005, F. Bravo (MZUEFS); Salvador, 2 females and 2 males, 15.IV.2006, F. Bravo (MZUEFS).

Diagnosis. Psychoda alternata can be recognized by the following combination of characters: labellum with 5 teeth, 1 short and 4 long; presence of brown spots at tips of veins; antenna with 13 flagellomeres, 11th–13th fused; flagellomere 13 very small; ascoids Yshaped with very short branches; cercus twice as long as ninth tergite with single tenaculum; aedeagus with lower shaft as large as distal half of main shaft ( Quate 1955); subgenital plate Vshaped.

Collection. All specimens were collected inside a house, in the bathroom.

Distribuition. Cosmopolitan; Brazil ( Salvador, new record).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Psychodidae
Genus	Psychoda