Platyplastinx Enderlein, 1937

Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago & Kvifte, Gunnar M., 2022, Platyplastinx ibanezbernali sp. nov., a new species of moth fly (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Ecuador, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 62 (2), pp. 383-389 : 384

Platyplastinx Enderlein, 1937

Platyplastinx Enderlein, 1937: 107 , type species: Platyplastinx solox Enderlein. 1937 .

Platyplastinx: QUATE (1963) (diagnosis); QUATE (1999) (revised description); QUATE & BROWN (2004) (revised description); LOPES & BRAVO (2015) (diagnosis, world species list).

Diagnosis. Modified from LOPES & BRAVO (2015) and QUATE & BROWN (2004).

Male. Interocular suture present; frontal patch of alveoli undivided; antennae with 14 flagellomeres, flagellomere 14 with cylindrical apiculus; ascoids simple, digitate and paired, approximately length of two antennal flagellomeres. Thorax without allurement organs; wings with infuscate patterns, usually with dark spots on apices of longitudinal veins; wing forks R 2+3 and M 1+2 basal to wing center, R 5 ending at wing apex. Genitalia with asymmetrical aedeagal complex (except in P. exiguous where it is symmetrical); epandrium with single foramen; hypopods with two types of tenacula; often with single principal elongated apical tenaculum (some species with 3, 12 or 15) with fimbriate, feathered or clavate apices; another group of 2–20 small, spine-like accessory tenacula; principal elongate apical tenaculum 2–8 times longer than accessory tenacula.

Female. Subgenital plate bilobed and ending with rounded apices; genital ducts comma-shaped and small, not hemispherical; lateral strut present; cerci short, broad and longer than wide.