Trichomyia grossa Araújo & Bravo, 2016

Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2016, Description of fourty four new species, taxonomic notes and identification key to Neotropical Trichomyia Haliday in Curtis (Diptera: Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae), Zootaxa 4130 (1), pp. 1-76 : 47-48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4130.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6080103

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A7ED58-F868-6C3C-6B98-FEE1B978AC6F

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Plazi

scientific name

Trichomyia grossa Araújo & Bravo
status

sp. nov.

Trichomyia grossa Araújo & Bravo View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 26A–F View FIGURES 26 A – F )

Diagnosis. R4+5 complete at base; lanceolate expansion on gonocoxite; two pairs of projections in the aedeagal complex, sclerotized medial and shorter than lateral; ejaculatory apodeme 1.5 the length of lateral projection of aedeagal complex.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna incomplete in the studied specimens; scape shorter than pedicel; pedicel subspherical; basal flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric; ascoids 1.3 times the length of flagellomere ( Fig. 26A View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Palpus with three segments; 1st segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.5:0.6 ( Fig. 26B View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Wing. R4+5 complete at base; r-m and m-cu absent ( Fig. 26C View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Male terminalia: Hypandrium fused with gonocoxites with lanceolate ventral expansion ( Fig. 26F View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Gonocoxites with posterior arm subrectangular in lateral view with a row of basal bristles ( Figs. 26D, 26F View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Gonostylus articulated to gonocoxite basally, bare, with apex directed dowward. Projections in the aedeagal complex, two pairs, sclerotized medial and smaller than lateral. Aedeagus ending after the apex of medial projection of aedeagal complex. Ejaculatory apodeme 1.5 the length of lateral projection of aedeagal complex. Epandrium pilose, subrectangular ( Fig. 26E View FIGURES 26 A – F ). Cercus pilose ( Figs. 26D, 26E View FIGURES 26 A – F ), subelliptical in lateral view, larger basally than apically. Epiproct shorter than hypoproct, both with apical micropilosity ( Fig. 26D View FIGURES 26 A – F ).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Porto Seguro, Estação Vera Cruz, holotype ♂, 05.XII.2002, F. Bravo leg. ( MZFS).

Etymology. The epithet grossa refers to the shape of arm of gonocoxite.

Distribution. Brazil—Bahia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Psychodidae

Genus

Trichomyia

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