Lepidiella Enderlein 1937
Creators: name: Araújo, Maíra Xavier
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Lepidiella

description: Key to males of Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937
1 Head without cornicula............................................................................... 2
- Head with multilobed cornicula......................................................................... 6
2 Internal paramere with bifurcated apex.................................. L. flabellata (Bravo & Santos 2011, Fig. 6)
- Internal paramere not bifurcated, blade shaped............................................................. 3
3 Ejaculatory apodeme narrow in dorsal view........................................ L. spinosa (Bravo 2005, Fig. 5)
- Ejaculatory apodeme broad in dorsal view, wider than gonocoxite............................................... 4
4 Ejaculatory apodeme short, 0.7 times the length of gonocoxite.......................................... L. hansoni
- Ejaculatory apodeme long, 2 times the length of gonocoxite.................................................. 5
5 Margins of pedicel divergent distally larger than base; hypandrium subrectangular with microtrichia sparrow uniformly, not arranged in circular groups............................................. L. olgae (Bravo & Araújo 2013, Fig. 2H)
- Margins of pedicel parallel; hypandrium wider in the middle portion with microtrichia arranged in circular groups............................................................................................ L. maculosa sp. nov.
6 Scape with a pronounced internal distal lobe............................................................... 7
- Scape cylindrical or with a short internal distal expansion................................................... 12
7 First flagellomere 3.0 X as long as the second....................................................... L. robusta - First flagellomere nearly the same length of second......................................................... 8
8 Scape 3.5 X as long as pedicel.............................................................. L. monteverdica
- Scape 2.0 – 2.5 times the length of pedicel................................................................ 9
9 Aedeagal apodeme narrow in dorsal view, narrower than the gonocoxite................ L. cervi (Satchell 1955, Fig. 5C)
- Aedeagal apodeme broad in dorsal view, with approximately the same width as the gonocoxite..................... 10
10 Eyes separated by 3.5 facet diameters............................................................. L. albipeda
- Eyes separated by 1.5 facet diameters................................................................... 11
11 Aedeagus digitiform; ejaculatory apodeme 3 times the length of gonocoxite; hypandrium triangular..... L. wagneri sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with ending in a dorsal spiraliform tip; ejaculatory apodeme 1.2 times the length of gonocoxite; hypandrium subrect- angular, narrow........................................................... L. pickeringi (Quate 1999, Fig. 2C)
12 Eyes separated by 1 facet diameters............................................................. L. niveitarsis
- Eyes separated by 2 or three facet diameters.............................................................. 13
13 Radial and medial forks at the same level; first flagellomere 2.0 X longer than second one................ L. lanuginosa
- Radial fork apical to medial fork; first flagellomere with the same length or 1.3 X longer than the second one.......... 14
14 Costal area convex, expanded........................... L. matagalpensis (Collantes & Martínez-Ortega 1998, Fig. 4)
- Costal area narrow................................................................................... 15
15 Aedeagus and parameres asymmetrical........................................ L. zumbadoi (Quate 1996, Fig. 5D)
- Aedeagus and parameres symmetrical........................................ L. larryi (Ibañez-Bernal 2010, Fig. 6)
description: Published as part of Araújo, Maíra Xavier & Bravo, Freddy, 2019, Two new species of Lepidiella Enderlein, 1937 (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the Neotropical Region with taxonomic comments about the species of the genus, pp. 487-493 in Zootaxa 4551 (4) on pages 491-492, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/2623143