Bryopharsos tritaleum Quate, 1996

Jaume-Schinkel, Santiago, Kilian, Isabel C., Pazmiño-Palomino, Alex & Mengual, Ximo, 2025, Revision of the genus Bryopharsos Quate, 1996 (Diptera: Psychodidae) with the description of nine new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1001 (1), pp. 1-51 : 42

Bryopharsos tritaleum Quate, 1996

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Bryopharsos tritaleum Quate, 1996: 41 . Type locality: Costa Rica, Heredia, Estación Biológica La Selva (INBio).

Diagnosis

Male

Eye bridge with four facet rows; wing 2.2 times as long as wide; ejaculatory apodeme ovoid in ventral view; gonocoxal apodeme with a spine-shaped projection ( Fig. 23A ); surstyli with three tenacula ( Fig. 23B ); aedeagus straight with a pointed apex ( Fig. 23A ). This species is similar to B. asymmetricum sp. nov. They can be easily differentiated by the number of facet rows in the eye bridge (four in B. tritaleum ; five in B. asymmetricum ), and the length of the ejaculatory apodeme (about as long as the aedeagus in B. tritaleum ; shorter than the aedeagus in B. asymmetricum ).

Female

Unknown.

Material examined

None.

Distribution

Costa Rica ( Quate 1996; Bravo & Araújo 2019) ( Fig. 1 ).

DNA barcodes

No specimens were available for DNA extraction.

Figures

Fig. 1. Species distribution map. Species dots do not represent the actual localities; jitter was added for visualization as the species’ real distributions overlap.

Fig. 23. Bryopharsos tritaleum Quate, 1996, ♂. A. Terminalia (ventral view). B. Surstyli. Abbreviations: aed = aedeagus; eja = ejaculatory apodeme; gns = gonostylus; gnx = gonocoxite; gnx lb = gonocoxal lobes; gnx sp = spine of gonocoxal lobe; par = paramere; surs = surstyli; ten = tenacula. No scales available. Figures adapted from Quate (1996).