The genus Ochrotrichia Mosely (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) in Costa Rica, with the description of four new species
Author
Bueno-Soria, Joaquin
Author
Holzenthal, Ralph W.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1763
41
54
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.181971
0fa7c8c1-980b-4b65-9805-a9782e447369
1175-5326
181971
Ochrotrichia avicula
,
new species
Fig. 1
a,b,c
This species is a member of the
xena
group of
Flint (1972)
as indicated by segment X occurring as a single broad, elongated plate. It is related to
Ochrotrichia avis
Bueno-Soria & Holzenthal
and
O. quebrada
Bueno-
Soria
& Holzenthal by the similarly elongated appearance of segment X in lateral view. From these species,
O. avicula
new species
differs by the presence of a wide, straight, elongated spine on the left side of segment X.
Male: Length of forewing
2.5 mm
. Color in alcohol dark brown. Segment IX depressed, slightly produced anteriad. Segment X in dorsal view hood-like, with wide, long, straight, spine-like process on left side; apex with short sclerotized hook-like on right side; in lateral view, hood-like with strong hooked apex curved ventrad. Inferior appendage in lateral view elongate, apex rounded; apical portion and midventral areas with group of black peg-like setae; in ventral view symmetrical, with group of large, black, peg-like setae apically and midventrally. Phallus long, tubular, with slightly wider basal section.
Female: Unknown
Type
material:
Holotype
, male.
COSTA RICA
: Puntarenas:
Río Jaba at rock quarry,
1.4 km
(air) W Las Cruces,
8.79° N
,
82.97° W
, el.
1150 m
,
9.viii.1990
, Holzenthal, Blahnik and Muñoz (
UMSP
).
Paratypes
: same data as the
holotype
6 males
(
UMSP
,
NMNH
,
INBIO
,
CNIN
).
Etymology:
Avicula
is the Latin feminine diminutive of bird, referring to the beak-like apex of segment X in lateral view.