Hydromanicus inferior Chantramongkol & Malicky 1995

Pandher, Manpreet Singh, Kaur, Simarjit & Garima, Deepti, 2021, New species and new records of Hydropsychinae (Insecta: Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) from India, Zootaxa 4915 (3), pp. 364-376 : 369

Hydromanicus inferior Chantramongkol & Malicky 1995 NEW RECORD for India

( Figs 11–12 )

Hydromanicus inferior Chantaramongkol & Malicky 1995 , 105 (5): 93

Diagnosis. The male genitalia of Hydm. inferior Chantaramongkol & Malicky 1995 are similar to those of Hydm. punctosalis Mey 1996 ( Thailand, Vietnam) and Hydm. fallax Mey 1996 from Vietnam as well as Hydm. sikkimensis sp. nov. However, the preanal appendages of Hydm. inferior are very characteristic, i.e., very broad to 2/3 length, and apical 1/3 very narrow in both lateral and dorsal views. The apices of the apical setose lobes of tergum X are truncate in dorsal view in the original description and illustrations by Chantaramongkol & Malicky (1995) but are somewhat rounded in our specimens from India. In the other three species, the preanal appendages vary from fingerlike to foliose and slender and the apices of the apical lobes of tergum X are rounded in dorsal view.

Material examined: India: West Bengal, Kalimpong, Neora Valley National Park, Suntalikhola , 27°00’47.3”N 88°47’05.6”E, 740 m, 25.ix.2018, 6 males, Pathania & Pandher ( NZC) .

Distribution: India (West Bengal), Thailand, Nepal, Myanmar.

Figures

FIGURES 11–12. Hydromanicus inferior Chantramongkol & Malicky 1995, male genitalia. 11, left lateral; 12, dorsal.