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Tonnoira robusta Bravo, Alves & Chagas, sp. nov.

Description

Tonnoira robusta Bravo, Alves & Chagas, sp. nov.

Figs. 11–20

Type material. BRAZIL, Amazonas, Presidente Figueiredo, Gruta Refúgio do Maragua, 02°03´02.64”S 59°57´47.85”W, 01.IV.2006, Alves, V. col., holotype male (INPA); 1 paratype male, same locality, date, and collector as holotype (MZUEFS); 2 paratype males, same locality and collector as holotype, 06.V.2006 (INPA, MZUEFS); 2 paratype males, same locality and collector as holotype, 09.II.2006 (INPA, MZUEFS); 1 paratype female, same locality and collector as holotype, 09.II.2006 (INPA).

Description. Male. Head (Fig. 11): eyes separated by 0.5 facet diameters (Fig. 11); interocular suture inverted Y shaped (Fig.11). Antenna: scape cylindrical 1.7X length of pedicel (Fig. 12); pedicel spherical (Fig. 12); flagellum with 14 flagellomeres; all flagellomeres flask-shaped (Figs. 12, 13); first flagellomere same length as second (Fig. 12); apiculus present in flagellomere 14 (Fig. 13); ascoids not visible. Palpus formula = 1.0:2.1:1.9:2.2; last palpomere striated (Fig. 14). Wing (Fig. 15): Sc short; vein R2+3 obsolete, radial fork free; radial fork basal; medial fork complete; R5 ending at wing apex. Male terminalia: hypandrium narrow, diademe-like without ventral expansion (Fig. 16); gonocoxite 0.6X length of the gonostylus (Fig. 16); gonostyli convergent, with base larger than apex (Fig. 16); alveoli present along entire surface (Fig. 16); epandrium rectangular; foramen not observed (Fig. 17); cercopod long, 2.2X length of epandrium, slightly curved (Fig. 18), with 2 tenacula, one apical and the other subapical (Fig. 19); sternite 10 smaller than tergite 10 (Fig. 17); aedeagus asymmetrical, bipartite with left branch smaller than right, curved, pointed at apex (Fig. 16); right branch of aedeagus with rounded apex (fig. 16); with two asymmetrical parameres ending near the apex of the aedeagus apex (Fig. 16); aedeagal apodeme trapezoidal, 0.75x length of aedeagus, wider anteriorly than posteriorly (Fig. 16); gonocoxal apodeme not fused at midline (Fig. 16).

Female (Fig. 20). Similar to male except as follows: apical lobes of subgenital plate of females long, rounded, and separated by a shallow apical concavity. Cerci blade-like, 2.2X the total length of genital plate from the anterior border at middle to the lobe apices (distance d). Genital complex small, as illustrated.

Notes

Published as part of Bravo, Freddy, Chagas, Cinthia & Alves, Veracilda Ribeiro, 2008, Description of two new species of Tonnoira Enderlein from caves in the Brazilian Amazon and comments about the taxonomic status of Tonnoira plumaria Quate (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae), pp. 63-68 in Zootaxa 1916 on pages 65-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184612

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bravo, Alves & Chagas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Psychodidae
Genus
Tonnoira
Species
robusta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Tonnoira robusta Bravo, Chagas & Alves, 2008