Leptonema chocoense Flint, McAlpine & Ross 1987

Leptonema chocoense

MALE.—Color greyish brown; forewing brown with transverse, darker, irrorations, hindwing infuscate, especially apicad. Length of forewing, 11 mm.

Malar space broad, almost height of eye, bare. Parafacial area almost as broad as malar; postocular as broad as parafacial, with numerous short setae, and a single enlarged seta. Maxillary palpus with fifth segment less than half as long as basal four combined. Foretibia with only a single apical spur. Process of fifth sternum small, ovoid, clearly attached to the anterior margin.

Genitalia: Tenth tergum with wart a very large, occupying most of the dorsal half of the tergum, bearing many spinous setae; wart c large, protuberant; lateral lobe with apicoventral margin produced into a lobe bearing short, reflexed spines. Clasper with apical segment about as long as basal, with a small group of spinous setae on apex. Phallus with base at right angles to stem, very broad; apex with distinct lateral lobe and a thin, dorsal flap triangular in dorsal outline, beneath which apex is squarely truncate.

FEMALE.—Unknown.

TYPE.—Holotype (male): COLOMBIA, Dpto. Choco, km 130, 86 Km E Quibdo, 17 Feb 1983, O.S. Flint, Jr. Holotype in USNM.