Enlinia chaetophora Robinson 1969

Enlinia chaetophora

MALE.—Length 1.4 mm; wing 1.5 mm by 0.6 mm. Head, thorax, and wing essentially as in E. elongata, but only 7 pairs of dorsocentrals seen; wings much folded and not completely observable.

Legs dark brown with trochanters slightly paler; setae mostly dark. Forecoxa with some prominent dark hairs anteriorly; fore- and middle femora with a small erect ventral near base; hind femur (Figure 107) with about 9 stout long black bristles along posteroventral surface; middle tibia (Figure 106) with rather long hairs, denser pubescence ventrally with a series of very short stout erect black setae near tip; hind tibia with usually 4 or 5 small but distinct posterodorsals, 3 smaller more widely spaced rather indistinct anterodorsals. Foretarsus (Figure 105) with segments 1 and 2 rather compressed, segment 3 flattened with very short stout thorn posteriorly near base, segment 5 rather flattened, lengths of segments from base as 8-6-6-6-8; middle tarsus as 12-7-7-6-8, segment 5 somewhat enlarged and flattened; hind tarsus as 12-12-9-7-8.

Abdomen (Figure 104) slightly longer than thorax, cylindrical, becoming broader distally, blackish with violet reflections, setae dark; sternites without auxiliary genitalia. Hypopygium small, capping tip of abdomen, brown; lamellae small, brown, short-pubescent, with small black hook on inner surface; a pair of long curved yellowish flattened and distally somewhat enlarged armatures projecting forward.

FEMALE.—Not seen or not distinguished from E. elongata

TYPE-DATA.—Holotype ♂ from Mexico: Oaxaca, Sierra Juarez, Route 175, 104 km marker, by stream and pools among rocks, wet shaded rocky ravine in rain forest area, 19 May 1963, H. Robinson (USNM 70303). Paratype: same data as holotype, 1 ♂.