New species of Psychoda Latreille (Diptera: Psychodidae) from Brazilian Amazon with sexual association using molecular data

Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro; Freddy Bravo; Claudio Jos´é Barros de Carvalho

doi:10.12741/ebrasilis.v16.e1058

Authors

Danilo Pacheco Cordeiro Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica, Santa Teresa, ES, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3085-8628
Freddy Bravo Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, BA, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0959-0767
Claudio Jos´é Barros de Carvalho Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-6853

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v16.e1058

Keywords:

Amazonia, drain fly, integrative taxonomy, moth-flies

Abstract

Psychoda Latreille is one of the largest genera of Psychodidae, with around 450 species, from which more than 130 are known from only one of the sexes. This is a result of the high diversity, sympatry of close related species and scarcity of diagnostic characters to accurately associate males and females in this genus. Here we describe a new species, Psychoda dactyla sp. n., from Brazil, Amazonas, São Gabriel da Cachoeira with morphological description of male and female specimens associated by DNA-barcoding.

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