Chimarra (Curgia) blepharophera Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) blepharophera

ADULT.—Length of forewing, and 6.5–9 mm. Color brown, body and appendages paler; forewing dark brown, with many small, golden flecks, especially concentrated along chord. Claws of male foreleg grossly asymmetrical.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsad, especially from posterior margin; tergum produced posteriad in lateral aspect, posterior margin conical, apical half squarely truncate in dorsal aspect; with a short posterolateral lobe bearing a brush of setae apically. Ninth sternum produced anteroventrally; with short, posteromesal keel; produced into a long dorsal extension, narrow in lateral aspect, in dorsal aspect as broad ventrally as base of tenth tergum, but the dorsal appendage narrow. Cercus elongate, slightly enlarged apicad. Tenth tergum short, tip entire, angled slightly dorsad, in dorsal aspect narrowed for apical half, tip angled or rounded; with many sensillae. Clasper quadrate, apicodorsal angle slightly produced, acute, with mesal tooth barely extending beyond tip in lateral aspect; in ventral aspect with tooth rounded apically, directed mesad. Phallus short, tubular, inflated basally; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly and no spines.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: MEXICO, EDO. OAXACA, 7.4 mi [11.9 km] N Putla, Hwy 125, 3200′ [~970 m], 3–5 Jan 1989, N. Bloomfield. SDMNH Type (on indefinite loan to NMNH).

Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 3, 10 (NMNH, SDMNH). EDO. GUERRERO, Ciudad Altamirano, 80 km NO Zihjuataneo, 7 Jun 1984, J. Bueno, 1 (IBUNAM). Acahuizotla, 23 Nov 19(?8)2, M. Garcia A., 1 (IBUNAM). EDO. JALISCO, 20 mi [32.2 km] S Puerto Vallarta, 22–23 May 1989, N. Bloomfield, 3, 4 (NMNH, SDMNH). EDO. NAYARIT, Compostela, 20 Oct 1982, Garcia and Ibarra, 1 (IBUNAM).

ETYMOLOGY.—From the Greek blepharon (“eyelid”) and phero (“to bear”), in allusion to the brush of the eighth tergum.