Maruina (Aculcina) Hogue, 1973

Camico, Jéssica Luna, Cordeiro, Danilo Pacheco & Chagas, Cínthia, 2019, Maruina Müller, 1895 (Diptera: Psychodidae): description of four new species from Brazil, with revised diagnoses for the genus and subgenera, Zootaxa 4652 (2), pp. 296-316 : 297-298

Maruina (Aculcina) Hogue, 1973

Maruina (Aculcina) Hogue, 1973:1 . Type species: Maruina cholita Hogue , by original designation; Bravo, 2004:1 (diagnosis). Maruina (Alcucina) Bravo, 2005: 639 (misstyping).

Diagnosis for adults. Combination of the following characters: eye bridge contiguous ( Fig. 4 ) or narrowly separated by a distance equivalent to at most 4 facet diameters ( Fig. 15 ); wing with vein C uninterrupted on level of base of R sector, R 3 united to R 2, veins R 4, R 5, M 1 and M 3 free at base ( Fig. 7 and 19 ); female hypogynium with the lateral bristles projecting dorsally from internal surface of the ventral wall of the plate ( Fig. 14 ).

Distribution. Argentina, Brazil ( Fig. 1 ), Peru, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution map of species of Maruina (Aculcina) from Brazil.

FIGURES 4–8. Maruina (Aculcina) roraimensis. 4. Male head in frontal view. 5. Female head in frontal view. 6. Antenna. 7. Wing. 8. Abdomen and posterior portion of thorax in ventro-lateral view, black setae indicate internal sclerotized nodule on sternite 3 and sclerotized bands on sternites 4–7. Abbreviations: scp=scape; ped=pedicel.

FIGURE 15–22. Maruina (Aculcina) pila. 15. Head, frontal view.16. Detail of frons, eyes and vertex, frontal view. 17. Scape and pedicel. 18. Palpus. 19. Wing. 20–22. Male terminalia. 20. Aedeagal complex, dorsal view. 21. Aedeagal complex, lateral view. 22. Gonopods, epandrium and epandrial appendage, lateral view. Abbreviations. ash=aedeagal sheath; asp=aedeagal spines; eap=epandrial appendage; eja=ejaculatory apodeme; ep=epandrium; gpd=gonocoxal apodeme; gt=gonostylus; gx=gocoxite; ped=pedicel; scp=scape; ten=tenaculum.

FIGURES 9–14. Maruina (Aculcina) roraimensis. 9–12. Male terminalia.9. Dorsal view. 10. Schematic drawing of hypandrium, gonocoxites, aedeagal complex and gonocoxal apodeme (setae of gonocoxites are oblitered). 11–12. Lateral view, black setae indicate the group of short dorsobasal spines inverted when aedeagal spines are moved posteriorly. 13–14. Female terminalia. 13. Photograph, black setae indicate short cerci.14.Hypoginium and spermathecal complex.Abbreviations:ash=aedeagalsheath; asp=aedeagal spines; eap=epandrial appendage; eja=ejaculatory apodeme; ep=epandrium; hpg=hypoginium; hyp=hypandrium; ilb=internal lateral bristles; lob=lobule of hypoginal valve; gpd=gonocoxal apodeme; gx=gonocoxite; ten=tenaculum.