A review of the Neotropical microcaddisfly genus Acostatrichia Mosely, 1939 with description of a new species from Brazil (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae: Leucotrichiinae)
Author
Santos, Allan Paulo Moreira
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-24
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.1
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Acostatrichia ujasa
Oláh & Flint 2012
Figs. 14
,
15C
,
16
Acostatrichia ujasa
Oláh & Flint 2012: 158
, figs. 41–43, male;
type
locality:
Ecuador
:
Pastaza Province
, Puyo (
27 km
North), Estacion Fluviometrica;
type
depository: NMNH.
Leucotrichiinae
genus B
Santos
et al
. 2016: 462
, figs. 4, 5; phylogenetic placement.
Redescription.
Length from front of head to tips of folded forewings 4.0–
4.5 mm
(n = 6). General color, in alcohol, brown. Pinned specimen brown, with spots of green setae on head, thorax, and wings (
Fig. 15C
). Head unmodified. Ocelli 3. Antennae each 21-articulated; scape cylindrical, twice as long as wide, inner margin not produced; pedicel cylindrical; flagellomeres cylindrical, unmodified. Forewings each with costal vein simple, unmodified. Abdominal segment VII bearing long ventromesal process, with acute apex (
Figs. 14A, 14C
). Segment VIII shorter dorsally than ventrally (
Fig. 14C
); in ventral view, posterior margin of sternum with two lobes forming deep median U-shaped incision surrounded by short setae (
Fig. 14A
); without lateral processes, but with apicoventral margin projecting in lateral view (
Fig. 14C
); tergum with transverse row of long setae (
Fig. 14B
). Segment IX mostly within segment VIII, ventrally open, with pair of long digitiform dorsolateral processes with slightly dilated apices, slightly curved gradually laterad except apices curved slightly inwards in ventral and dorsal views (
Figs. 14A, 14B
), slightly upturned in lateral view (
Fig. 14C
); each with four very long, strong, and curved apical spines (
Figs. 14
A–14C). Preanal process absent (
Fig. 14B
). Inferior appendages fused with each other only basally, distal portions free, each short, apically rounded and with subapical incision on inner margin (
Fig. 14A
); with pair of very long rod-like lateral processes rising from basal area, dilatated at apices (
Fig. 14A
); in lateral view, upturned (
Fig. 14C
). Subgenital plate, in ventral view, broad, with sclerotized belt basally and with V-shaped incision on posterior margin (
Fig. 14A
); in lateral view, directed posterad and rounded apically (
Fig. 14C
). Tergum X membranous, bilobed, dorsal lobe quadrangular, ventral lobe pentagonal in dorsal view (
Fig. 14B
). Phallus tubular basally, bearing midlength complex, with dorsal window and basal loop as long as basal portion (
Fig. 14D
); apical portion with plate-like sclerite and more than eight internal spines (
Figs. 14D, 14E
).
Material examined.
HOLOTYPE
male:
Ecuador
, Past., Puyo (27
Kms. N.
) Est. Fluv. Metrica,
4 February 1976
, Spangler
et al
. leg. (
NMNH
);
PARATYPE
:
same data,
1 male
pinned (
NMNH
).
Additional material.
Peru
,
Cusco
,
Quincemil
, stream, S
13°13’03”
W
73°43’40”
, el.
633 m
,
20.viii.2012
, light trap, APM
Santos
&
DM
Takiya
leg.,
3 males
(
DZRJ
).
Remarks.
This species shares with
A
.
cerna
similarities in the general aspect of the male genitalia, particularly, the presence of three or four conspicuous apical spines on each dorsolateral process of segment IX (
Figs. 11A
,
14A
). However, these two species can be distinguished from each other by those apical spines, much longer in
A
.
ujasa
, and also by phallus, in
A
.
ujasa
with more than eight internal spines (
Fig. 14D
), whereas in
A
.
cerna
the phallus has four long internal spines (
Fig. 11D
).
Distribution.
Ecuador
and
Peru
(
Fig. 16
).