Seoda labeculosa ( Eaton, 1893 )

Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2014, Nomenclature and taxonomy of Telmatoscopus Eaton and Seoda Enderlein; with a discussion of parameral evolution in Paramormiini and Pericomaini (Diptera: Psychodidae, Psychodinae), Zootaxa 3878 (4), pp. 390-400 : 395-396

Seoda labeculosa ( Eaton, 1893)

Pericoma labeculosa Eaton, 1893: 127

= Telmatoscopus latinervosus Vaillant, 1964: 63 . Synonymized by Vaillant (1972)

Material examined. GREAT BRITAIN, Devon: "Near Parhaynes, Seaton Junction", 18.VI.1904, 2 ♂♂. "Near Seaton Junction", 13.VI.1901, 1 ♂. "Near Pottlake, Shute", 3.VI.1902, 1 ♂., all A.E. Eaton leg. ( BMNH)

LUXEMBOURG: "Quelle E6, NW Horas Rheoholokrene 310 m NN" 15.VI.1999, I. Schrankel leg., 1 ♂ (RW) Description. Adult male (n=5, for measurements n=1). Head (fig. 2A) longer than broad; vertex between two and three times length of head, tapering; postocular setae indistinct, reaching base of eyebridge; eyebridge of four facet rows, separated by one facet diameter; interocular suture present, Y-shaped with very short stem; frontal alveolar patch trilobate with median "lobe" reaching interocular suture; frontoclypeus widened over mesal margins of eyes, produced to about eyebridge width in front of eyes; length of palps 85: 130: 150: 200; scape barrellshaped, 2.5 times length of pedicel; flagellomeres slightly asymmetrical, carrying numerous filiform ascoids and one pair of narrow digitiform ascoids; ascoids slightly longer than flagellomere; most flagellomeres positioned such as to make their measurements unfeasible; thorax destroyed in described specimen; wing (fig. 2B) length 2.1, breadth 0.84; apex of wing between R4 and R5; wing forks and apices of Sc and CuA2 widened; Sc approaching C; medial fork slightly distal of radial fork; dense circular patch of setae present dorsally of jugum, jugum widely triangular; terminalia (fig. 2C); hypandrium produced triangularly; gonostylus (not illustrated) elongate curved cylindrical, longer than gonocoxite; gonocoxite reniform; gonocosal condyles arched, platelike; triangular parameral sclerite present medially, linked basally to distiphalli; aedeagal complex surrounded by parameral sheath; basiphallus broad with wide aperture; distiphallus consisting of two symmetrical phallomeres sclerotized basally, connected to ventral epandrial plate medially; distal parts of phallomeres membranous, shovel-shaped; epandrium (not illustrated) approximately square with single aperture; surstyli elongate of even width, six times as long as wide; tenacula with tips fringed; tenacula slightly less than twice width of surstylus; epiproct round, hypoproct elongately diamond-shaped.

Remarks. Seoda labeculosa is here recorded from Luxembourg for the first time. The species is previously known from Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Ireland and Lithuania ( Tonnoir 1919, Nielsen 1964, Withers & O'Connor 1992, Bernotienè 2002, Ježek 2003).