New species of the genus Cheumatopsyche Wallengren 1891 (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from Indian Himalaya
Author
Pandher, Manpreet Singh
Author
Malicky, Hans
Author
Parey, Sajad H.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-02-15
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.4
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Cheumatopsyche meghalayaensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 14–18
)
Material
examined.
Holotype
, male,
India
:
Meghalaya
;
Bhagmara
,
200 m
,
12-iv-2009
, Pandher & Parey (
NPC
)
. Paratypes. 2 males, 1 female, collection data same as of holotype.
Diagnosis.
Due to the presence of unilobed segment X,
Cheumatopsyche meghalayensis
sp. nov.
belongs to the
Cheumatopsyche concava
Species Group as defined by Oláh & Johanson (2008). Based on the similarity in the overall male genitalic structure, it is closer to
Cheumatopsyche chryseis
Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1997
and
Cheumatopsyche chrysothmis
Malicky & Chantaramongkol 1997
(both reported from
Thailand
), especially
Ch. chryseis
.
Cheumatopsyche meghalayaensis
resembles
Ch. chryseis
in the lateral view of the male genitalia (similar shape of segment IX and of the harpago (apical segment) of each inferior appendage), but segment X is narrow in lateral view and the mesocaudal lobe is blunt and slightly invaginated apically in dorsal view in
Ch. meghalayaensis
, whereas segment X is broad in lateral view and the mesocaudal lobe is rounded apically and is produced medially in dorsal view in
Ch. chryseis
, strongly supporting
Ch. meghalayensis
as a distinct species.
Description.
Adult male; color in alcohol fuscous, sparsely covered with golden yellow pubescence, dorsum of head dark brown. Length from tip of head to apices of folded forewings about
8.25 mm
; maxillary palps each
1.75 mm
, segment II almost equal to III; V as long as I–IV combined; labial palps each
0.50 mm
long, short. Length of each forewing
7 mm
; venation typical for genus; crossveins
m-cu
and
cu
parallel and separated; veins Sc and R, Cu and A running separately to wing margin. Hind wings each about
6 mm
long; fork I present; veins Sc and R meeting at crossvein
r
before
apex; stem of M and Cu1 running close together; median cell closed.
Male genitalia
(
Figs. 14–18
). Abdominal segment IX longitudinally short, each side anterolaterally almost straight in lateral view; apicodorsal median keel small, acute, triangular, and granulose; apical lobe on each posterolateral margin slightly indicated, setose, its posterior spine row aligned in continuity with setae on posterolateral slope of keel. Small depression visible dorsally between segments IX and X. Lateral setose areas (preanal appendages) indicated by small lobes. Body of segment X slender, lobe-like in lateral view, quadrate in dorsal view; Apicoventral setal lobes fused into single lobe, collectively quadrate apically, smooth mesocaudal lobe medially invaginated in dorsal view, forming shallow dorsal interlobular gap. Inferior appendages each with coxopodite long, slightly dilated medially and broad subapically in lateral view and in ventral view slightly curved mesad; harpago (apical segment) small, broad basally, slightly notched preapically, apically with outer edge pointed, inner protrusion small. Phallic apparatus broad basally, slender and curved caudoventrad in lateral view; phallotheca slender, slightly constricted preapically in ventral view and apically with pair of broad, sclerotized endothecal processes.
Distribution.
India
:
Meghalaya
.
Etymology.
This species is named after the
type
state
Meghalaya
.