Trichomyia fairchildi Vargas and Diaz-Najera 1953
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Trichomyia fairchildi Vargas and DíazNájera, 1953
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Trichomyia fairchildi Vargas and DíazNájera, 1953: 154. Type locality: Mexico, Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Cerro Hueytepec. Additional references: Satchell 1956:155; Duckhouse 1973:5 (neotropical Cat.); IbáñezBernal 2000:625 (Mexican Psychodidae list).
Trichomyia fairchildi was described based only on wing characteristics (Fig. 1), the unique structure preserved in a microscope slide by Dr. Alphonse Dampf in 1947. Because the wing characteristics are not useful alone for species recognition, it is necessary to consider it as species inquirenda. Nevertheless, it is important to mention that this specimen shares wing characteristics with Trichomyia urbica Curtis, 1839 (as figured by Vargas and Díaz Nájera 1953, and Satchell 1956), such as the broadly rounded wing apex, the radial fork apicad of the wing center, vein rm present, and the median fork approximately at the level of CuA2.
Material examined: Holotype (wing): Mexico, Chiapas, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Cerro Hueytepec, 14VI1926. A. Dampf, col. & pp., 3IX1947, slide in Canada balsam: InDRE (PsT87005).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psychodidae
- Genus
- Trichomyia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Vargas and Diaz-Najera
- Species
- fairchildi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trichomyia fairchildi and, 1953 sec. Ibáñez-Bernal, 2004
References
- Vargas, L. & Diaz-Najera, A. (1953) Trichomyia fairchildi n. sp., y Eubonetia n. gen. (Diptera: Psychodidae) Revista del Instituto de Salubridad y Enfermedades Tropicales (Mexico), 13, 153 - 158.
- Satchell, G. H. (1956) On the genus Trichomyia Haliday (Diptera: Psychodidae), with descriptions of four new species. The Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 25, 147 - 156.
- Duckhouse, D. A. (1973) Family Psychodidae, subfamilies Bruchomyiinae, Trichomyiinae, Sycoracinae and Psychodinae. In: Papavero, N. (Ed.). A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 6 A, 1 - 29.
- Ibanez-Bernal, S. (2000) Psychodidae (Diptera). In: Llorente-Bousquets, J., Gonzalez-Soriano, E. and Papavero N. (Eds.). Biodiversidad, taxonomia y biogeografia de artropodos de Mexico: hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento, Vol. II. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., pp. 607 - 626.