Tamolia ramifera (Walker, 1868)

(FigS. 1, 3, 5, 6)

Distant (1900) believed that Horváth (1900) had misidentified Lyramorpha ramifera Walker when he proposed the new generic name Tamolia for this species; so, he proposed Tamolia horvathi as a new name for Horváth’s alleged misidentification. Kirkaldy (1910) placed Distant’s name in synonymy with Walker’s name, thus indicating that Horváth had not misidentified Walker’s species.

Tamolia ramifera is only known from the female type specimen (Rolston et al. 1993). This specimen was collected in Papua New Guinea. Here we present the first specific locality records within Papua New Guinea for this species:

Material examined: Papua New Guinea, Owen Stanley Range, Goelala: Tororo, 21-24-II-1958, 1560m a. s. l., 1♂, W. W. Brandt leg. [DARC]; Papua New Guinea, 18km SE of Okapa, 1300m a. s. l. 1♀ [DARC].

Although the male of this species has not been described, it is nearly identical to the female in color and structure, with the only differences found in the genital segments. The male genitalia (Figs. 3, 6) is here described: Ventral margin of pygophore broad (Fig. 3), bilobed, same colored as the abdominal venter, with sparse light caramel brown pilosity. Parameres light brown, small, elongated, cane shaped. Additionally, to improve the knowledge on this species the female external genitalia (Fig. 5) is described as follows: First gonocoxite subquadrangular, unpunctated; paraterguites 8 subtriangular shaped, with dark serrate posterior margins; paraterguites 9 long, rectangular, with dark serrate posterior margins.