Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri Wagner 1979, comb.nov.
Creators: name: Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Psychodidae
Rhipidopsychoda
Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri

description: Rhipidopsychoda boettgeri (Wagner, 1979) comb.nov.
Psychoda boettgeri Wagner, 1979: 61
Threticus boettgeri (Wagner, 1979) — Kvifte 2012: 43
Material examined. Holotype ♂. Democratic Republic of Congo: Kalengo. No date. K. Böttger leg. Coll. RW Diagnosis. See key.
Description. Head (Fig. 3 A) slightly longer than broad; vertex densely setose, slightly longer than one third of head length; single row of 6 ocular setae present; eyebridge of four facet rows; interocular suture very obtusely inverted v-shaped; interocular distance equal to 2 facet diameters; frontal scar patch inverted T-shaped, reaching interocular suture; length of palpomeres 60: 110: 120: 124; clypeus with dorsal suture complete; labellum flat, with two setiform setae, one lateral digitiform seta and a terminal row of three digitiform setae (Fig. 3 D); antennae of holotype incomplete; scape slender, cylindrical; pedicel stout, globular; flagellomeres not preserved; length of scape and pedicel 80: 60; thorax without specialized allurement organs; anepisternum covered with hair scars; anepimeron triangular with lower margin projecting posteriorly; final tarsomere of prolegs with dorsal protuberance; wing (Fig. 3 B) lanceolate, 1.56 mm long, 0.54 mm wide; membrane without pilosity or setae; base of R5 and area between C and R1 infuscated; C with two breaks, thickened basally to humeral break and just distally of subcostal break; Sc short; radial fork distal of medial fork, both forks incomplete at bases; CuA2 at level with radial fork; both basal cells open; base of Costa and CuA2 thickened; terminalia asymmetrical (Fig. 3 C); hypandrium band-like, angulate distally, posteriorly expanded; gonocoxite elongate cylindrical, longer than gonostylus; gonostylus narrow tapering with scattered spiniform sensillae on both surfaces; basiphallus laterally compressed, narrow in dorsal aspect, basally slightly expanded; with aperture at distiphallic joint very small; distiphallus narrow, rotated 90°; parameres paired, slightly asymmetrical, consisting of a conical basal body with an elongate medial needle-shaped protuberance; protuberance on left paramere externally angulate, hook-shaped; both parameres reaching slightly longer than aedeagus; epandrium (Fig. 3 E) slightly longer than broad with very short medioanterior processes pointing anteriorly; ventral epandrial plate not discernible on specimen; surstyli cylindrical, comparatively straight, distally expanded with single row of 12 tenacula; hypoproct about half as long as epandrium, round with short anterior protuberance, finely pilose; epiproct small, oval, embedded in hypoproct.
description: Published as part of Kvifte, Gunnar Mikalsen, 2015, The Afrotropical genera of Psychodini: Redefinition of the tribe, first Afrotropical record of Perithreticus Vaillant, 1973 and description of Soeliella gen. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae), pp. 115-126 in Zootaxa 3986 (1) on page 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/236377