A review of the New Guinea species of Chimarra Stephens (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae)
Author
Cartwright, David
text
Memoirs of Museum Victoria
2020
2020-12-31
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1
49
http://dx.doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2020.79.01
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10.24199/j.mmv.2020.79.01
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Chimarra bicornis
sp. nov.
Figures 91–93
Holotype
.
Male
(figured specimen CT-364),
PNG
(
Morobe Province
),
Wau
,
Big Wau Creek
,
1300 m
, about
7° 20' S
,
146° 43' E
,
November 1965
,
P. Shanahan
(
BPBM
).
Diagnosis.
Chimarra bicornis
is similar to
C. ulmeri
but different to all other New
Guinea
Chimarra
species
in having a pair of sclerotised, curved dorsal and ventral branches of the lateral lobes on segment X. In
C. ulmeri
, the apices of the dorsal or upper branch of the lateral lobes are directed dorsally (
Kimmins, 1962
: fig. 16A;
Neboiss, 1986a
: fig. p. 106) or posterodorsally (fig. 90), whereas in
C. bicornis
, they are directed dorso-laterally. (There is also a species from northern
Australia
with a similar pair of curved mesal processes on segment X –
C. adaluma
Cartwright
[
Cartwright, 2002
]).
Description.
General body colour and wings brownish. Wings similar to those of
C. ukarumpana
(fig. 7). Length of forewing: male 5.9 mm. Forewing with forks 1, 2, 3 and 5 present, Rs slightly sinuous or curved, slightly thickened, basad of discoidal cell.
Male.
Segment IX anterior margin in lateral view, with rounded extension anteroventrally (fig. 91), ventral process small, sub-triangular, situated basally on segment IX (figs 91, 92), in lateral view, length about 0.6 times width (fig. 91). Segment X lateral lobes sclerotised, short, slender, with dorsal and ventral branches, dorsal branch directed dorso-laterally, ventral branch directed ventro-posteriorly, with sensilla not discerned (figs 91, 93). Phallus with two slender spines included subapically (figs 92, 93). Inferior appendages short, robust, acute apices angled dorso-mesally (figs 91–93), in lateral view, angled at about 45° to horizontal, subquadrate, length about 2.5 times width, broadest in distal half, tapered slightly basally (fig. 91), in ventral view, appear sub-ovate, length about 2.8 times width (fig. 92).
Female
. Unknown.
Etymology. Bicornis –
Latin for two horned, two pronged (paired curved, dorsal branches of lateral lobes on segment X).
Remarks.
Chimarra bicornis
is known only from the
holotype
male in north-east
PNG
.