Tonnoira Enderlein, 1937

Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago, 2025, Morpho-Molecular species delimitation within Tonnoira Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae): Updates on COI barcode data and the description of five new species, Zootaxa 5673 (1), pp. 1-26 : 6

Genus Tonnoira Enderlein, 1937

Type species: Tonnoira pelliticornis Enderlein, 1937: 106 ; type locality: Peru, Callanga. Note: only the female sex is known for the type species .

Etymology. Named after Dr. A. Tonnoir by Enderlein (1937), gender feminine.

Important references: Enderlein (1937: 106; original description); Quate (1963: 189; diagnosis); Quate (1996: 33; revised description); Quate & Brown (2004: 25; revised description); Santos & Curler (2014: 464; updated diagnosis); Bravo et al. (2020: 4; species list; identification key); Jaume-Schinkel (2022: 2–3; updated distribution map and species list; 2023: 51–57; description of new species, updated identification key).

Species included are summarized in Table 1.

Diagnosis (adapted from Santos & Curler 2014). Eye bridge typically consists of 4 (rarely 5) rows of facets, with nearly or contiguous eyes, usually connected by an inverted Y-shaped interocular suture. The antennae are as long as or longer than the wings, and the flagellomeres are usually elongate, cylindrical, or fusiform, though weakly nodiform in some species; apical flagellomeres have an elongate and slender apiculus. Thorax without allurement organs, all coxae have a stripe of one to three rows of alveoli. The wing presents radial and medial forks in the basal half, with the radial fork positioned basad of the medial fork. Genitalia with gonostyli that are simple or bifurcate. The aedeagus and parameres are typically asymmetrical (symmetrical in a few species), and the epandrial appendages normally bear 1–3 tenacula.