Heteroberdeniella, Wagner & Andrade & Gonçalves, 2022

Wagner, Rüdiger, Andrade, Rui & Gonçalves, Ana, 2022, Moth flies (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Portugal with descriptions of a new genus new species and additions to the fauna of the Iberian Peninsula, Zootaxa 5129 (1), pp. 37-59 : 50

Heteroberdeniella gen. nov.

Diagnosis: A genus of the tribe Pericomaini , head with eye bridge of 4 facets, distance between eyes 3–4 facet diameters; antenna with scape, pedicel and 14 barrel-shaped flagellomeres; head and thorax without scent or ornamental organs; wing tip between R 4 and R 5; terminalia with tubular gonocoxites, gonostyli slightly bent, abruptly thinner in distal half, epandrium rectangular with a pair of pseudospiracular openings, epandrial appendages with two large unequally sized tenacula arranged in line; aedeagus with dorsoventrally flattened ejaculatory apodeme; apical part of ejaculatory apodeme and gonocoxal bridge connected by a V-shaped sclerite with ball-and-socket articulation.

Type-species: Heteroberdeniella jaramensis (Wagner) , comb. nov.

Species included: Heteroberdeniella guadarramica spec. nov.

Etymology: Hetero (gr.) for other, unlike, dissimilar and Berdeniella .