Mortoniella roldani Flint 1991

Mortoniella roldani

This species is almost identical in most aspects of appearance and male genitalia to M. bilineata Ulmer. It is only to be distinguished in the male genitalia, especially by the possession of a process beneath the central tube from the basolateral lobe.

ADULT.—Length of forewing, male, 3–3.5 mm, female, 3.5–4 mm. Color fuscous; forewing fuscous with two transverse white bands (at a certain angle these have bluish, opalescent reflections), apical one at chord, other midway between chord and base. Sixth stemum of male with a pointed apicomesal process. Male genitalia: Ninth segment with anterior margin rounded and produced anteroventrally; posterior margin nearly vertical for upper half, lower half very oblique. Tenth tergum with apical lobes narrowly divided mesally, with apicolateral margin darkened; lateral lobe lightly sclerotized, ending in a slender process. Aedeagal complex with a single dorsomesal process whose tip is angled dorsad, and slender, pointed, paired lateral and lateroventral processes, basolateral lobe bearing a slender process.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: COLOMBIA. DPTO. ANTIOQUIA: Río Aurrá at km 50, E San Jerónimo, 14 Feb 1983, O.S. Flint, Jr. USNM Type.

Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 4, 12. DPTO. META: Quebrada Blanca, 3 km W Restrepo, 11 Feb 1983, O.S. Flint, Jr., 158, 153.