Telmatoscopus capixaba Bravo, Santos & Ferreira

Bravo, Freddy, Souza, Isys, Santos, Claudiney Biral Dos & Ferreira, Adelson Luiz, 2011, Three new species of Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904 (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 2802, pp. 34-40 : 35-36

Telmatoscopus capixaba Bravo, Santos & Ferreira , sp. nov.

( Figs. 1–8 )

Type material. BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, Município de Barra de São Francisco, Povoado de Vargem Alegre, 20.X.2009, Santos, C.B. col., holotype male (MZUEFS); 24 paratype males, same locality, date and collector than holotype (MZUEFS); 1 paratype male, Espírito Santo, município de Pancas, Córrego Ubá, CDC trap, 10.II.2009, Santos, C.B. col., (MZUEFS).

Etymology. This species is named after the Brazilian State in which it was discovered.

D iagnosis. Hair patch of frons undivided, with patch of scars extending to upper eye margin, nearly to suture; longitudinal veins without medial or apical enlargements; hypandrium with concave apex; cercus with 14 apical tenacula; membranous area of male terminalia without apical spicules; parameres plumose-like, bifid, each arm bifurcated at apex.

Description. Male. Head. Eye bridge with four facet rows, separated by 1.5 facet diameters ( Fig. 1 ); interocular suture present, complete, inverted V-shaped ( Fig. 1 ); hair patch of frons undivided, with patch of scars extending to upper eye margin, nearly to suture ( Fig. 1 ). Antenna incomplete in all specimens studied, scape cylindrical 1.5 times as long as pedicel ( Fig. 2 ); pedicel spherical ( Fig. 2 ); basal flagellomeres nodiform and asymmetrical ( Fig. 2 ); ascoids lost in all specimens; sensory organ of flagellomeres present ( Fig. 2 ). Palpus formula = 1.0:1.4:1.3:1.8, last palpomere striated ( Fig. 1 ).

Wing ( Fig. 3 ). Longitudinal veins without medial or apical enlargements; radial and medial forks on about same level; R2+3 incomplete; R4 ending neat the apex; R5 ending beyond wing apex.

Male terminalia. Epandrium fused to hypandrium ( Figs. 4, 5 ). Epandrium longer than wide with apical margin U-shaped, with bristles only in posterior area ( Fig. 6 ); presence of two foramina ( Fig. 6 ). Cercus pilose, long, 1.3 times as long as length of gonostylus, slightly curved in lateral view ( Fig. 5 ), with 14 apical tenacula ( Fig. 7 ). Tergite 10 smaller than sternite 10 ( Fig. 6 ). Hypandrium with concave apex, apically sclerotized ( Fig. 8 ). Gonocoxite pilose, 0.7 times as long as length of gonostylus ( Figs. 5, 8 ). Gonostylus pilose, with dorsal patch of scars at base, apically beak-shaped ( Figs. 5, 8 ). Sternite 10 subtriangular apically, with apical micropilosity. ( Fig. 6 ). Aedeagus symmetrical, bifid, 0.5 times the length of parameres ( Fig. 8 ); membranous area present above aedeagus, plate-like, without patch of apical spicules ( Figs. 4, 5, 8 ); one pair of parameres plumose-like, bifid, each arm bifurcated at apex ( Figs. 4, 8 ). Aedeagal apodeme 3.6 times as long as length of aedeagus ( Fig. 8 ). Posterior prolongation of gonogoxal bridge (p.gx.bd) pointed apically ( Figs. 4, 5, 8 ).

Female. Unknown.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Telmatoscopus capixaba Bravo, Santos & Ferreira, sp. nov., holotype male, except Figures 1 and 4 (paratype). 1. Head. 2. Antenna: scape, pedicel and basal flagellomeres. 3. wing. Male terminalia: 4. aedeagal complex. 5. lateral view. 6. Epandrium, sternite 10 and tergite 10. 7. apex of cercus. 8. dorsal view. (ae, aedeagus; m. a, membranous area; p. gx. bd, posterior prolongation of gonogoxal bridge; pr, paramere).