Revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Phylloicus (Trichoptera: Calamoceratidae)
Author
PRATHER, AYSHA L.
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Phylloicus bidigitatus
,
new species
Fig. 27
This species has long, paired, digitate posteroventral processes of tergum X (
Fig. 27A, B
), which are distinctive.
Phylloicus bidigitatus
is only known from one badly rubbed specimen from
Rio de Janeiro state
. This specimen may in fact be conspecific with
P. obliquus
, of which I was able to identify only a single male specimen from
Santa Catarina
. Thus, I was not able to assess variation within the species. The shape of tergum X (
Fig. 27A, B
) is different enough between the
two specimens
to suggest they are different species, but only additional specimens can resolve this question.
Adult. Forewing length 10.1 mm, n = 1.
Head chestnut brown. Maxillary palps golden brown. Antenna twice forewing length; dark brown, with narrow patches of pale sensilla on anteromesal surface of each flagellomere. Dorsal pterothorax chestnut brown; ventrolateral thorax golden brown. Legs golden brown. Tibial spur formula 2,4,4. Forewing flat; chestnut brown; with single transverse band; distal band ivory, beginning at anterior wing margin, at least 1/2 width of wing, narrow, less than 10 setae wide. Hind wing basal brush present in male, golden brown.
Male. Preterminalic abdominal terga with anteromesal notch. Corematic structures absent, terga IIIV unmodified, without membranous lobes or sclerotized processes. Sternum VII with short, acute anteromesal process. Sternum VIII similar to anterior sterna, sternum IX not elongate. Tergum IX with mesal ridge extending 2/3 length of segment; posterior margin smoothly rounded (
Fig. 27B
); lateral ridge present; dorsal pleural setae approximately 10, ventral pleural setae absent (
Fig. 27A
); sternum IX with paired mesolateral ridges; sternum IX (
Fig. 27C
). Preanal appendage shorter than tergum X, but greater than 2/3 length, of uniform diameter throughout length, setae long, but not filamentous or longer than appendage (
Fig. 27A, B
). Tergum X without basal lobes; basodorsal process absent; basolateral processes absent; apex, in lateral view, rounded, in dorsal view, notched, notch deep and round; covered with short setae dorsally, with paired digitate posterior processes (
Fig. 27A, B
). Harpago sharply tapered; peglike setae few, apical (
Fig. 27A, C
). Phallic endotheca with paired apicolateral lobes, apicolateral lobes large and with digitate apical lobe; phallotremal sclerites average size, longest dimension less than diameter of phallobase; dorsal sclerite ovoid, in dorsal view horseshoeshaped (
Fig. 27D, E
).
Female. Unknown.
Holotype
male
:
BRAZIL
:
Rio de Janeiro
:
Itatiaia
,
1626.x.1927
,
Zerny
(
NMW
).
Distribution.
Brazil
.
Etymology.
Bidigitatus
, from the Latin
bi
, “two” and
digitatus
, “having fingers,” referring to the paired digitate processes of tergum X.