2953
Author
Nielson, M. W.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-07-08
2953
1
85
journal article
11755334
Coelidia costaricensis
,
sp. nov.
(
Plate 3D
,
Figs. 156–162
)
Length.
Male 9.60 mm; female unknown.
External morphology
.
Large, slender species. General color dark brown to black, small yellow spots on veins of forewings, mesontoum, pronotum and crown; crown with large yellow spots on anterior margin, yellow longitudinal stripe medially from base to near apex; face yellow with large black spot below each eye (
Plate 3D
). Head small, distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin angulate; crown broad, broader than width of eyes, produced distally about 1/3 entire medial length; pronotum large, median length about 1/3 longer than crown, surface bullated; mesonotum very large, nearly twice length of pronotum; forewings typical; clypeus long, broad, nearly rectangular-shaped, without median longitudinal carina; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow throughout, slightly inflated baso-medially, constricted medially.
Male genitalia
.
Pygofer narrow, caudodorsal margin with long narrow process, truncate apically, caudoventral process very long, narrow in basal ¾, apex inflated with small spine distally (
Fig. 156
); segment X with membranous lobe ventrally (
Fig. 157
); right subgenital plate long, narrow in basal 3/5, expanded in distal 2/5, profusely setose on outer lateral margin along distal 2/5 (
Fig. 158
); style with long, very narrow apophysis (
Figs. 159, 160
); aedeagus in lateral view long, tubular, sinuate, strongly recurved subdistally, apex sharply pointed, gonopore subapical before curved apex on dorsal margin (
Fig. 161
), in dorsal view with 2 subbasal adjoining quadrate processes on dorsal margin (
Fig. 162
); connective broadly Y-shaped, disk large, membranous, basal stem absent (
Fig. 162
).
Material examined.
Holotype
male.
COSTA RICA
:
Alajuela
,
Catatata del Toro
,
7 km
.
N.
Bajos
del Toro, HGLT on lookout platform,
A. E. Z. Short
,
30-V-2006
, AS-06-067 (
NMNH
).
Etymology.
The species is named for the country from which it was first found.
Remarks.
This species is similar to
C. angulata
,
sp. nov
.
in the configuration of the aedeagus and connective and can be easily separated by the slender style and apical, bulbous caudoventral process of the pygofer.