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 conformalis
,
new species
Figs. 4
a, b, c
The presence of 2 dark spine-like processes on segment X and similarly shaped inferior appendages in lateral view, make to
Ochrotrichia conformalis
new species
a member of the
arranca
group (
Flint 1972
) closely related to
O. arranca
(Mosely)
(
Fig. 3
), and
O. quasi
,
new species
. However, the wide, stout, basal lobe of the inferior appendages in ventral view clearly separates
O. conformalis
new species
from
O. arranca
(Mosely)
and
O. quasi
,
new species
.
Male: Length of forewing 2.0 mm. Color in alcohol stramineous. Segment IX depressed, produced anteriad. Segment X in dorsal view with long, slightly curved, dorsal process bearing 2 large black setae; left side with apical hook-like process; in lateral view, ventrally with 2 curved processes, 1 long with acute, ventrally directed apex, the other shorter, wider basally. Inferior appendage in lateral view, with elongate, finger-like dorsal lobe; left inferior appendage with elongate, bifurcate ventral lobe, between lobes 2 short black spineslike; right inferior appendage with large, apically darkened hook-like process, ventral lobe bearing 2 preapical, black spines-like; in ventral view, left and right ventral lobes of inferior appendages appearing short, stout, wide basally, with 2 dark, preapical spines-like; apex acute, ending in long dark spine-like. Phallus long, thread-like.
Female: Unknown
Type
material:
Holotype
, male.
COSTA RICA
: Alajuela:
Reserva Forestal San Ramón, Río San Lorencito and tribs.,
10.216º N
,
84.607º W
, el.
980 m
,
1–4.v.1990
, Holzenthal & Blahnik (
UMSP
).
Paratypes
: same data as
holotype
,
2 males
(
UMSP
,
NMNH
).
Etymology:
From the Latin word
conformalis
; in reference to the similarity of this species with
O. arranca
(Mosely)
.