Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904

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 : 392

Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904

Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904: 58 . Type species: Pericoma advena Eaton, 1893 , by subsequent designation of Quate (1965) = Sciria Enderlein, 1935: 247 . Type species: Pericoma advena Eaton, 1893 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Frons and clypeus clearly separate, not protruding over eye margin; flagellomeres asymmetrically nodiform, with paired, curved, leaf-shaped to digitiform ascoids; flagellomere 13 with elongate neck, flagellomere 14 with elongate apiculus; R2+3 not connected to R4; apex of R5 ending in apex of wing; basiphallus narrow in dorsal view and distally ending in two short branches with membranous connection to distiphallus; distiphallus composed of paired, symmetrical phallomeres; aedeagal complex encapsuled in parameral sheath, parameral sclerites separate, usually slightly curved in dorsal and ventral views, usually narrow, arranged transversely near bases of phallomeres; surstylus with indistinctly fringed tenacula; epandrium with single aperture.

Species included:

Telmatoscopus advena ( Eaton, 1893)

Telmatoscopus dendrophilus Vaillant, 1983

Telmatoscopus laurencei Freeman, 1953

Telmatoscopus pappi ( Wagner, 1979)

Telmatoscopus patibulus Quate, 1955

Telmatoscopus tanegashimensis ( Ježek & Mogi, 1995) comb. nov. Telmatoscopus thuringicus Beran, Doczkal, Pfister & Wagner, 2010

Discussion. The definition of the advena group as distinct from other Telmatoscopus auct. was first pointed out by Vaillant (1989), and followed upon by Ježek & Mogi (1995). Due to the latter authors' incorrect assertion that Pericoma morula is available for type species designation in Telmatoscopus , however, they used the name Sciria Enderlein, 1935 for the advena group. Some authors, e.g. Salmela (2005) and Svensson (2009) followed this arrangement; however, since Pericoma advena is the type species of both Telmatoscopus and Sciria , the latter name falls as an objective junior synonym. For the taxa similar to Pericoma morula , the name Seoda Enderlein, 1935 is available (type species Pericoma labeculosa , see below).