Chimarra (Curgia) peruviana Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) peruviana

ADULT.—Length of forewing, and 6–9 mm. Color pale brown; body and appendages stramineous; forewing stramineous, with scattered flecks of darker hair. Claws of male foreleg apparently unmodified.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsally; tergum posterolaterally with small, sclerotized lobe bearing a small brush apically; posterior margin bearing many long setae, with a dorsomesal excision, bearing on each side a slender rod-like projection capped by several very long setae, and bearing beneath here a tongue-like, hirsute lobe. Ninth sternum produced anteroventrally; with posteromesal keel; produced dorsally as a plate, barely concave, between lateral margins of eighth tergum. Cercus elongate, flared laterad, enlarged apicad. Tenth tergum with tip entire, but with dorsomesal groove; with an upcurved, slender process on each side from base of mesal lobe with several apical sensillae, apex of mesal lobe pointed apicad, with a small point dorsolaterally between tip and process, with many sensillae. Clasper slightly elongate, tip pointed apicodorsally, a small tooth apicoventrally; tooth distinct apicomesally in ventral aspect. Phallus short, tubular, inflated basally, with apicolateral face produced; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly, a pair of slender, curved, basal spines, and a pair of stouter, dark, apical spines.

MATERIAL.—Holotype. male: ECUADOR, PCIA. NAPO, Rio Jondachi, 30 km N Tena, 950 m, 10 Sep 1990, O.S. Flint, Jr. NMNH Type.

Paratypes: Same date as holotype, 3. 5.2 km SW Pano, 640 m, 13 Sep 1990, O.S. Flint, Jr., 1. PCIA. PASTAZA, Puyo, 5–17 May 1977, Spangler and Givens, 8, 4; same, but 1.5 km S Puyo, 14–21 May 1977, 5. Estación Fluviometrica, 27 km N Puyo, 4 Feb 1976, Spangler et al., 3, 3.

PERU, DPTO. CUSCO, Pcia. Paucartambo, Puente San Pedro at km 152 (13°13.3′S, 71°32.8′W), 44 km NW Pilcopata, 1450 m, 2–3 Sep 1988, O. Flint and N. Adams, 1 (NMNH). Quitacalzón at km 164, (13°01.6′S, 71°30.0′W), 32 km NW Pilcopata, 1050 m, 1–2 Sep 1989, N. Adams et al., 21, 9; same, but 25–27 Jun 1993, Blahnik and Pescador, 3;same, but streamlet, 50 m E Quitacalzón, 2 Sep 1989, 18, 4; same, but 26 Jun 1993, Blahnik and Pescador, 1, 2. Cosnipata Valley, 29 Nov 1951, F. Woytkowski, 1 (INHS); same, but Cosnipata Valley, Hacienda Maria (tropical jungle), 2700′ [~820 m], 20 Feb 1952, F. Woytkowski, 1 (INHS); same, but Santa Isabel, Cosnipata Valley, 1 Jan 1952, 1 (INHS). Pilcopata (premontane rain forest), 600 m, 8–10 Dec 1979, J.B. Heppner, 1. Quince Mil, Sep 1962, L.E. Pena G., 10, 19. DPTO. HUANUCO, Tingo Maria (premontane rain forest), 672 m, 1–6 Feb 1980, J.B. Heppner, 4.

ETYMOLOGY.—A name suggested by the country Peru.

Chimarra peruviana là một loài Trichoptera trong họ Philopotamidae. Chúng phân bố ở vùng Tân nhiệt đới.