Psychoda uniformata Haseman, 1907

Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago, Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, Njunjic, Iva & Schilthuizen, Menno, 2023, New records of moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) for the Dutch Fauna, Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 108636-108636 : 108636

Psychoda uniformata Haseman, 1907

Psychoda uniformata Haseman, 1907. Haseman (1907): 319. TL: USA. Missouri: Columbia.

Psychoda moravica Vaillant, 1966. Vaillant (1966): 225. TL: Czech Republic, Praděd (see Ježek (1990)).

Psychoda uniformata Haseman: Ježek (1990): 67.

Description

Examined material

1 ♀. The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Vondelpark 52.3578°N, 4.8671°E. 27.V.2019-5.VI.2019. Leg. Taxon Expeditions Team. ZFMK-TIS-2638051 (OR139003) [ZFMK]; 1 ♀ same data, except for 3.VI.2019-12.VI.2019. Leg. Van der Meer, Marrit. ZFMK-TIS-2638081 (OR139015) [TXEX].

Diagnosis

Females of P. uniformata can be differentiated from other Psychoda species by the shape of sternite 8 (subgenital plate) (as in Ježek (1990) fig. 152) and the shape of the genital chamber (as in Ježek (1990) fig. 145).

Males can be distinguished from other Psychoda species on the following combination of characters: the antennae with 13 flagellomeres; the gonostyli apically pointed, the distiphallus is broadly triangular, narrowing towards apex; a single paramere is present, reaching more than four-fifths length of the distiphallus. Psychoda uniformata is similar to Psychoda cultella Salmela, Kvifte & More, 2012 and Psychoda obscuripennis Jezek & van Harten, 2005, but they can be differentiated by the following characters: the antennae with 13 flagellomeres (14 in P. cultella , 13 in P. obscuripennis ); the gonostyli are apically pointed (apically pointed in P. cultella and club-shaped in P. obscuripennis ); the distiphallus broadly triangular (distiphallus parallel-sided in both P. cultella and P. obscuripennis ); the paramere reaching more than four-fifths the length of the distiphallus (paramere subequal in length to the distiphallus in P. cultella , paramere reaching roughly two-thirds the length of the distiphallus in P. obscuripennis ) ( Ježek 1990, Ježek and van Harten 2005, Salmela et al. 2012).

Genetics

Two specimens were successfully sequenced: ZFMK-TIS-2638051 (OR139003) and ZFMK-TIS-2638081 (OR139015). The maximum intraspecific uncorrected pairwise distance for COI sequences was 2.12% or 14 bp.

Distribution

Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia, Mongolia, Morocco, The Netherlands (this publication, new record), Poland, Turkey, USA ( Ježek et al. 2021, Gibernau and Albre 2022).