Psychoda cinerea Banks, 1894

Canneva, Bruno, 2019, A new species of Laurenceomyia Wagner & Stuckenberg, with a key to species and new records for Psychodidae (Diptera) from Uruguay, Zootaxa 4544 (3), pp. 407-418 : 413

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Psychoda cinerea Banks View in CoL

Psychoda cinerea Banks, 1894: 331 View in CoL . Type locality USA (Sea Cliff, New York).

Psychodoka cinerea: Ježek 1984: 135 View in CoL .

Psychoda (Psychodocha) cinerea: Bravo et al. 2006: 11 View in CoL .

Literature records in Uruguay. Martínez (2016). Widely distributed in the country.

Remarks. Discussion on generic placement of the species is presented in Bravo et al. (2006).

This species can be identified based on the subgenital plate ending in two small lobes, leaving a semicircular ample space between them; genital digit 3.0-3.5X as long as width, and internally with a kidney-shaped genital sac ( Ibañez-Bernal 2008). P. cinerea shows a cosmopolitan distribution ( Bravo et al. 2006; Ibañez-Bernal 2008).