Telmatoscopus capixaba Bravo, Santos & Ferreira, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bravo, Freddy
name: Souza, Isys
name: Santos, Claudiney Biral Dos
name: Ferreira, Adelson Luiz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Telmatoscopus
Telmatoscopus capixaba

description: 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.
description: Published as part of Bravo, Freddy, Souza, Isys, Santos, Claudiney Biral Dos & Ferreira, Adelson Luiz, 2011, Three new species of Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904 (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Brazil, pp. 34-40 in Zootaxa 2802 on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201556