The Chimarra minima group in West Africa and Madagascar (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae)
Author
Gibon, François-Marie
text
Zoosystema
2015
2015-06-30
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333
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2015n2a3
journal article
10.5252/z2015n2a3
1638-9387
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Chimarra sanagae
n. sp.
(
Fig. 7
A-D)
TYPE MATERIAL. —
Holotype
:
Cameroon
,
Sanaga River
at
Sakbayémé
,
4°2’3”N
,
10°32’44”E
,
9.III.1989
,
F.-M. Gibon
,
1 ♂
(2 slides: wings and phallic apparatus / head, thorax and abdomen) (
MNHN
).
Paratypes
: Small tributary of the Sanaga River between Sakbayémé and Song-Loulou,
4°4’42”N
,
10°25’20”E
,
10.III.1989
, F.-M. Gibon,
1 ♂
(3 slides: phallic apparatus / abdomen / head and thorax) (
CBGP
). - Sanaga at Song-Loulou,
4° 5’20.45”N
,
10°27’19.89”E
,
6.XII.1989
, F.-M. Gibon,
1 ♂
(ethanol) (
CBGP
).
TYPE LOCALITY. —
Cameroon
, Sanaga River at Sakbayémé,
4°2’3”N
,
10°32’44”E
.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. —
Cameroon
, Ngoué River near Pouma (Nyong River bassin), 3°61’7.60”N,
10°31’26.35”E
,
17.XII.1989
, F.-M. Gibon,
8 ♂
(ethanol) (
CBGP
).
DISTRIBUTION. —
Cameroon
.
ETYMOLOGY. — Named after the Sanaga River (central
Cameroon
).
DIAGNOSIS. —
Chimarra loffae
n. sp.
belongs to the subgroup 1, with a latero-ventral lobe sheet or leaf-shaped. It is distinguished from
C. prodhoni
, the other species of the subgroup, by the wide base of the latero-ventral lobe of tergum X and by the absence of an endothecal spine.
DESCRIPTION.
Size: forewing
3.9 mm
, hindwing
3.2 mm
. Preanal appendages small, setose with wrinkled aspect. Inferior appendages massive, dorsal branch strong, elongate, with a line of stout setae; internal process protruding, ventrally inserted, small but larger than in
C. loffae
n. sp.
Latero-dorsal lobes of tergum X stout, hook-shaped, curved outward, shorter than latero-ventral lobe. Latero-ventral lobes of tergum X: base wide, almost triangular in lateral view, apically extending as a sclerotized, slightly ventrad curved, finger-shaped rod. Lateral rods of phallotheca, long, stout, strongly curved ventrad, distal third with a wrinkled appearance. Endothecal spine absent. Phallotremal sclerite small, with indiscernible structure.