Atrichobrunettia
Creators: name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Atrichobrunettia

description: Key to males of the Neotropical species of the genus Atrichobrunettia
1. Parameres uniformly wide, rectangular with truncate or rounded apex, wider than gonocoxites (Fig. 43) .................................................................................................... 2
­ Parameres triangular with pointed apex, or, with internal lobe digitiform at apex, or, if retangular, parameres narrower than gonocoxites......................................................... 3
2. Parameres with truncated apex; aedeagal apodeme long, 1.5X length of gonocoxite ... ................................................................................................ A. pennata Bravo, sp.nov.
­ Parameres with rounded apex; aedeagal apodeme same length as gonocoxite .............. ................................................................................................................ A. bora (Bravo)
3. Parameres triangular (Figs. 23, 26, 30, 33, 39) ............................................................ 4
­ Parameres rectangular with truncate apex or with internal lobe digitiform at apex .... 8
4. Antenna with 13 flagellomeres; eye bridge with 4 facet rows; parameres parallel (Fig. 39) ................................................................................. A. minuta Bravo, sp. nov.
­ Antenna with 14 flagellomeres; eye bridge with 3 facet rows; parameres divergent .. 5
5. Parameres longer than gonocoxite .............................................................................. 6
­ Parameres ½ length of gonocoxite ............................................................................... 7
6. Parameres with parallel arms; posterior margin of post­hypandrial plate with inverted U­shape invagination; aedeagus ending before posterior margin of post­hypandrial plate (Fig. 23) ........................................................................ A. angelae Bravo, sp. nov.
­ Parameres with divergent arms; posterior margin of post­hypandrial plate straight; aedeagus ending after posterior margin of post­hypandrial plate (Fig. 26) ................... ........................................................................................... A. longipenis Bravo, sp. nov.
7. Radial fork situated proximal to medial fork (Fig. 28); aedeagal apodeme ending before gonocoxal bridge (Fig. 30) .................................... A. brevicornis Bravo, sp. nov.
­ Radial fork situated distal to medial fork; aedeagal apodeme ending after gonocoxal bridge (Fig. 33) .................................................................... A. bispinata Bravo, sp. nov.
8. Radial fork situated basal to medial fork; parameres with truncate apex; distiphallus with shafts separated and curving inward, meeting on midline .......... A. bistria (Quate)
­ Radial fork situated apical to medial fork; parameres with internal lobe digitiform at apex; distiphallus with parallel shafts .......................................................................... 9
9. Aedeagal apodeme ending before anterior margin of gonocoxal bridge .................... 10
­ Aedeagal apodeme ending after anterior margin of gonocoxal bridge ...................... 11
10. Radial fork situated apical to medial fork (Fig. 18) ............... A. spinata Bravo, sp. nov.
­ Radial fork situated proximal to medial fork (Fig. 15) .. A. paranaensis Bravo, sp. nov.
11. Aedeagal apodeme narrow (Fig. 13) ............................. A. amazonensis Bravo, sp. nov.
­ Aedeagal apodeme wide at base, narrow at apex (Fig. 17) ...... A. ampla Bravo, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Bravo, Freddy, 2006, The taxonomy of Neotropical Brunettiina (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae, Mormiini), with descriptions of ten new species from Brazil and comments on the generic classification of the subtribe, pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1134 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171921