Trichomyia (Septemtrichomyia), BRAVO, 1999

Araújo, Maíra Xavier, Bravo, Freddy & Carvalho, Claudio José Barros De, 2023, First phylogeny of Trichomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae: Trichomyiinae) based on morphological data of adults, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198 (3), pp. 871-900 : 894

TRICHOMYIA (SEPTEMTRICHOMYIA) BRAVO, 1999

Septemtrichomyia Bravo, 1999: 1–2 .

Type species: Trichomyia botosaneanui Wagner, 1993 , by original designation.

Species included: Trichomyia amazonensis Araújo & Bravo, 2012 ; Trichomyia atlantica Araújo & Bravo, 2012 ; Trichomyia botosaneanui Wagner, 1993 ; Trichomyia bou Bravo, 1999 ; Trichomyia capixaba Araújo, dos Santos, Bravo & de Carvalho, 2017 ; Trichomyia cauga Bravo, 1999 ; Trichomyia dolichakis Quate, 1996 ; Trichomyia dolichopogon Alexander, Freitas & Quate, 2000 ; Trichomyia dolichothrix Quate, 1999 ; Trichomyia gabia Araújo, dos Santos, Bravo & de Carvalho, 2017 ; Trichomyia gustavoi Araújo, dos Santos, Bravo & de Carvalho, 2017; Trichomyia imarui Araújo & Bravo, 2012 ; Trichomyia jezeki Araújo & Bravo, 2012 ; Trichomyia menezesi Araújo, dos Santos, Bravo & de Carvalho, 2017 ; Trichomyia mishi Bravo, 1999 ; Trichomyia pedicillata Satchell, 1956 ; Trichomyia pedrabranquensis Bravo, 2001 ; Trichomyia sattelmairi Wagner & Masteller, 1996 ; and Trichomyia sertaneja Araújo & Bravo, 2012 .

Comments: Three synapomorphies to the subgenus were recovered: presence of long bristles at the end of the posterior margin of tergite VII (52-1); posterior margin of tergite VII with a rounded apical lobe (53-2); and gonocoxite projected at an angle of 0° to the medial internal region of genitalia (88-3). Septemtrichomyia species present an exclusive diagnostic characteristic of a cluster of long bristles in lobes at each lateral end of tergite VII of male terminalia ( Bravo, 1999). This subgenus was proposed by Bravo (1999), who proposed the monophyly of the group based on a small phylogeny. Initially, it included nine species. Subsequently, Araújo & Bravo (2012) described five new species of the subgenus. More recently, four new species were described from Brazil ( Araújo et al., 2017). In addition, the distributions of T. gabia and T. imarui have expanded, and T. pedicillata has been included in this subgenus.