fredag 11. januar 2013

Psychoda cultella Salmela, Kvifte & More, 2012

Psychoda cultella Salmela, Kvifte & More, 2012

Psychoda cultella Salmela, Kvifte & More, 2012


Psychoda cultella Salmela, Kvifte & More, 2012. Photograph by Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte


Description (from Salmela et al. 2012, diagnostic characters in italics)
Antennae with 16 segments, terminal four near globular. F11 with a short neck, F12-14 partially fused.
Labellum with five teeth.
Wing forks complete.
Hypandrium narrow. Gonocoxite bulbous laterally. Gonostylus elongate, longer than gonocoxite.
Aedeagus with large knife-shaped paramere.Distal margin of subgenital plate with tufts of hair.
Surstyli elongate, basally bulbous.

DNA:
Two COI-sequences are available from GenBank: JQ349633 and JQ349634.

Distribution:
Finland (Salmela et al. 2012)
Norway (Salmela et al. 2012)

Natural History:
Psychoda cultella is probably fungivorous or saprobiont in the larval stage as two of the paratypes were reared from polyporous fungi (Salmela et al. 2012).

Bibliography
Salmela, J., Kvifte, G. M. & More, A. 2012. Description of a new Psychoda Latreille species from Fennoscandia (Diptera: Psychodidae). Zootaxa. 3313: 34-43.

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