Trichomyia longa Araújo & Bravo sp. nov.

(Figs. 12A–H)

Diagnosis. Gonocoxites with two elongated arms, one pilose and one bare, both curved; aedeagal complex with two pairs of projections, the dorsal smaller than ventral projection, distally curved to the midline; ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus, cercus with apical rod-like bristles.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; scape shorter than the subspherical pedicel; flagellomeres pyriform (Fig. 12B); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by a suture (Fig. 12C); ascoids paired, 1.4 times the length of flagellomeres (Fig. 12A). Palpus with three segments; 1st segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.7:0.8 (Fig. 12D). Wing. R4+5 incomplete at base; r-m and m-cu absent (Fig. 12E). Male terminalia: Hypandrium fused with gonocoxites. Gonocoxites with two elongated arms, one pilose and one bare, both curved. Gonostylus articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, subrectangular in lateral view (Figs. 12F, 12H). Aedeagal complex with two pairs of projections, the dorsal smaller than ventral; the dorsal projection distally curved to the midline. Aedeagus simple (Fig. 12F). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 1.2 times the length of gonostylus. Epandrium pilose, wider than long. Cercus pilose (Fig. 12G), subelliptical in lateral view with a group of apical, thick bristles. Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (Fig. 12H).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Porto Seguro municipality, Estação Vera Cruz, holotype ♂, 05.XII.2002, F.

Bravo leg. (MZFS); 1 paratype ♂ same locality, date and collector than holotype (MZFS). Etymology. The epithet longa refers to the elongated arms of gonocoxite. Distribution. Brazil—Bahia.