Bryopharsos paulistensis Bravo & Araújo, 2019

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 : 35-36

Bryopharsos paulistensis Bravo & Araújo, 2019

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Bryopharsos paulistensis Bravo & Araújo, 2019: 365 . Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Sete Barras (MZFS).

Diagnosis

Male

Eye bridge of five facet rows ( Fig. 19A ); wing two times as long as wide; ejaculatory apodeme subrectangular in ventral view ( Fig. 19B ); gonocoxal apodeme with anterior projection as a lobe ( Fig. 19B ); surstyli with one tenaculum ( Fig. 19C ); aedeagus long and expanded, hemispheric basally and narrowly pointed at the apex ( Fig. 19B ). This species is similar to B. uncinatum , both can be easily differentiated by the number of facet rows in the eye bridge (four in B. uncinatum , five in B. paulistensis ).

Female

Unknown.

Material examined

None.

Distribution

Brazil ( 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. 19. Bryopharsos paulistensis Bravo & Araujo, 2019, ♂. A. Head. B. Terminalia (ventral view). C–D. Surstyli. E. Epandrium. Abbreviations: add lb = additional lobe of gonocoxal lobe; aed = aedeagus; ep = epandrium; gns = gonostylus; gnx = gonocoxite; gnx lb = gonocoxal lobes; par = paramere; surs = surstyli; ten = tenacula. All scale bars are in millimeters. Figures adapted from Bravo & Araujo (2019) with permission of the copyright holder © Magnolia Press.