chilensis Malloch, 1933: 319,

text figs. 56c, 57e–g (head, ♂ terminalia)

HT: ♂ Chile, Llanquihue, Peulla. NHMUK, unnumbered

AT: ♀ Chile, Llanquihue, Peulla

Note: Holotype and allotype apparently not subsequently examined.

PT: Malloch (1933: 320–321) stated, “ 18 paratypes, Peulla, Bariloche, Puerto Varas, Ensenada, Santiago, and Angol.” Marinoni & Knutson (1992: 29), under “Material-tipo examinado,” listed the following five specimens (all bearing a manuscript label “ paratype No. 44666”) as paratypes: 1♂ “Santiago/ Chile ”; 1♂ “Angol-Chile/ 28-Oct-1925 ”; 1♂ “Puerto Varas/Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon”; 1♀ “Puerto Varas/ Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon”; 1♀ “Ensenada/Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon.” Marinoni & Knutson (1992: 29) also listed 1♀ Puerto Varas, X.1926, R. & E. Shannon and 1♂ Bariloche, – XI.1926, R. & E. Shannon among “Material examinado” but without paratype number labels although they obviously were part of Malloch’s type series. All in USNM

DIST: ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires; Chubut; Río Negro). CHILE (Araucanía; Atacama; Biobío; Coquimbo; Los Lagos; Los Ríos; Maule; Metropolitana de Santiago; Valparaíso). Map: Marinoni & Knutson 1992

FIGS: Marinoni & Knutson 1992 (♂ terminalia, ♂ sternite 5; ♀ terminalia, spermatheca), Marinoni & Carvalho 1993 (♂ genitalia; spermatheca), Marinoni & Mathis 2000 (antenna, ♂ terminalia, ♂ genitalia; ♀ terminalia, spermatheca), Knutson & Vala 2011 (wing), this paper (habitus, antenna, ♂ sternite 5)

BIOL: Abercrombie 1970. BG: 11; PG: 6

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Larvae of P. chilensis fed on the following molluscs in the laboratory: Aplexa marmorata, Biomphalaria glabrata, Chilina fluctuosa, Galba humilis, Gyraulus parvus, Helisoma anceps, H. trivolvis, Lymnaea viator, Physa peruviana, Physella gyrina, Pisidium sp., Stagnicola palustris, Succinea aequinoctialis, and Tropicorbis chilensis (Abercrombie 1970) . V.W. Kaczynski (in litt.) noted that larvae also killed and fed on operculate snails.

IMMATS: Abercrombie 1970 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)