Trichomyia bahiensis Araújo & Bravo sp. nov.

(Figs. 16A–I)

Diagnosis. Gonocoxite arm lobe-like, upright in lateral view and with few short spinform bristles in the medial surface; gonostylus plate-like; one pair of projections in the aedeagal complex connected/joined by a thin ventral membrane; ejaculatory apodeme short, 0.4 times the length of gonocoxite; cercus with few small spatulate bristles near the apex.

Description. Male. Head subcircular in frontal view. Antenna: scape subcylindrical, pedicel subspherical; flagellum with 13 flagellomeres, 1st to 12th flagellomeres pyriform and eccentric (Fig. 16A); 13th flagellomere subcylindrical with terminal apiculus separated by suture (Fig. 16C); ascoids 1.1 times the length of a flagellomere (Fig. 16B). Palpus three segmented; first segment with sensilla in depressed pit on medial surface; palpus formula 1.0:0.6:0.7 (Fig. 16D). Wing. R4+5 incomplete at base; r-m and m-cu absent (Fig. 16E). Male terminalia: Hypandrium and gonocoxites fused. Gonocoxites with arm lobe-like, upright in lateral view and with few short spinform bristles in the medial surface (Figs. 16G, 16I). Gonostylus slightly sclerotized, articulated ventrally to gonocoxite, bare, plate-like. Presence of one pair of projections in the aedeagal complex ending at the same level of aedeagus, united by a thin ventral membrane. Aedeagus filiform (Figs. 16G, 16H). Ejaculatory apodeme short, 0.4 times the length of gonocoxite. Epandrium with posterior margin larger than the anterior margin. Cercus ovoid (Figs. 16F, 16H); dorsal surface of cercus with few small spatulate bristles near the apex (Fig. 16H). Hypoproct with apical micropilosity (Fig. 16F).

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Brazil, Bahia, Ituberá municipality, 12.VI.2002, holotype ♂, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS); 5 paratypes: 3♂, Bahia, Porto Seguro municipality, Estação Vera Cruz, 05.XII.2002, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS); 1 ♂, Bahia, Cachoeira municipality, Fazenda. Villa Rial, 25.IV.2004, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS); 1 ♂, Fazenda Villa Rial, 20.VII.2004, F. Bravo leg. (MZFS).

Etymology. The epithet bahiensis refers to the type locality.

Distribution. Brazil—Bahia.