Three new species of non-biting moth flies (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Bolivia, with notes on higher taxa of the subfamily
Ježek Jan, Le Pont Francois, Martinez Eddy, Mollinedo Sergio
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51(1): 183-210, 2011
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Abstract: A study of Psychodinae, tribes Paramormiini, Psychodini and Pericomini, from
Bolivia is completed, and three new species are described: Eurygarka freyrei sp.
nov., Tinearia boliviensis sp. nov. and Alepia santacruz sp. nov. Differential
diagnoses are included and important diagnostic characters illustrated. All
known species of the genera Eurygarka Quate, 1959, Tinearia Schellenberg,
1803 and Alepia Enderlein, 1937 are listed. Comments on the classification of
all three genera are given, and the conception of Neotropical Setomimini is
discussed. The species Eurygarka aliciae (Ibáñez-Bernal & Cáceres, 2005)
comb. nov., from Peru, is transferred from Philosepedon Eaton, 1904; seven
species are transferred from Psychoda Latreille, 1796 to Tinearia – Tinearia
alia (Quate, 1962) comb. nov. (Philippines, Borneo and New Guinea), T.
capitipenis (Ibáñez-Bernal, 1992) comb. nov. (Mexico), T. efflatouni (Tonnoir,
1922) comb. nov. (Egypt), T. formosiensis (Tokunaga, 1957) comb. nov. (Taiwan,
Borneo), T. platilobata (Tokunaga, 1957) comb. nov. (Taiwan, Philippines,
Borneo, Jamaica, Trinidad), T. subquadrilobata (Tokunaga, 1957) comb. nov.
(Taiwan), and T. vagabunda (Quate, 1962) comb. nov. (Sri Lanka, Borneo). A new
subtribal synonymy is proposed: Threticina Vaillant, 1991 syn. nov. =
Trichopsychodina Ježek, 1985.
Key words: Psychodidae, Psychodinae, Paramormiini, Psychodini, Pericomini, Setomimini, Trichopsychodina, taxonomy, new species, new synonymy, new combinations, list of species, Bolivia, Neotropical Region