Atopsyche (Atopsyche) chirihuana Schmid 1989

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Atopsyche (Atopsyche) chirihuana Schmid 1989

Atopsyche chirihuana Schmid 1989 , 121 (Type locality: Ecuador, Pich., Santo Domingo (47 km S), Rio Palenque Bio. Station, el. 750 m; holotype depository: NMNH; male).

Atopsyche (Atopsyche) chirihuana Schmid ; Blahnik et al. 2004, 4 (distribution); Paprocki et al. 2004, 7 (checklist).

Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Atopsyche (A topsyche) tripunctata Group and is most similar to A. erigia Ross 1947 . It can be recognized by the angled second article of each inferior appendage ( Schmid 1989).

Description. Overall color yellowish brown; frons and vertex of head with elongate, erect light and dark brown, yellow and whitish setae. Antennal scapes with long brown setae. Pedicels and basal flagellomeres yellow, apical flagellomeres brown. Dorsum of thorax with elongate, erect light brown and whitish setae. Forewings light brown with brown shading on ventral margin, covered by small light brown and whitish setae, erect setae of veins forming irregular pattern of alternate brown and whitish setae, apices with fringes of light brown and yellow setae; legs yellow to light brown. Genitalia, inferior appendages large and setose in anterior region, each with second article about half-length of first and obtusely curved apically ( Schmid 1989).

Material examined. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais, Rio Santo Antonio, downstream from Morro do Pilar, 19°08.134’S, 43°21.256’W, el. 530 m, 17.x.2000, Paprocki, H. & Ferreira; Det. Blahnik, R. 2001, UMSP 000047568, 1 male (pinned, MZSP).

Distribution. Brazil (Minas Gerais), Ecuador.