The Trichoptera of Lord Howe Island, including 3 new species, larvae and keys
Author
Wells, Alice
text
Zootaxa
2011
2987
45
55
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.203675
88635dff-e90c-424f-af8b-e0ffeb1a3d0f
1175-5326
203675
Cheumatopsyche erskinensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 1–4
,
9
)
Material examined.
Holotype
male, Lord Howe Island, Erskine Valley,
21–22.xi.1996
, A. Wells, lt tr.
Paratypes
:
1 male
,
1 female
, same data as for
holotype
.
Diagnosis.
Males of this species are distinguished from those of
C. howensis
by the blunt-tipped apical segment of each gonopod and by the truncate apical margin of abdominal segment X in dorsal view. Females differ from those of
C. howensis
in having the apico-dorsal angles of abdominal sternite VIII in lateral view rounded, not produced (
Fig. 9
).
Wings (
Fig. 1
). Forewing length: male
5.2 mm
(N =2), female
7.3 mm
(N =1).
Male genitalia (
Figs 2–4
). Tergite IX in dorsal view narrow distally, cerci short, broadly rounded, very shallowly separated; in lateral view with distal margin produced to form rounded setose lobe medially. Tergite X in dorsal view bearing pair of small wart-like setose lobes laterally, another pair at apico-lateral angles; in lateral view rounded apico-laterally, not upturned. Phallic apparatus narrowest in middle region, lobed apically. Gonopods in ventral view slender, each angled mesally in distal quarter, terminal segment parallel-sided, blunt, and bearing several very short setae at apex; in lateral view slender, down-turned distally.
Female genitalia (
Fig. 9
): sternite VIII pale, apico-dorsal angle rounded.
Etymology.
Named for Erskine Valley, the
type
locality.