Atopsyche (Atopsaura) plancki Marlier 1964

Gomes, Victor & Calor, Adolfo Ricardo, 2016, Taxonomy of Atopsyche Banks (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae) from Brazil: New species, distributional notes and identification key, Zootaxa 4139 (1), pp. 51-75 : 60

Atopsyche (Atopsaura) plancki Marlier 1964

Atopsyche plancki Marlier 1964 , 2 (Type locality: Brazil, São Paulo, Salesópolis, Estação Ecológica de Boracéia; holotype depository: IRSNB; male).

Atopsyche (Atopsaura) plancki Marlier ; Blahnik et al. 2004, 4 (distribution); Paprocki et al. 2004, 7 (checklist); Santos & Holzenthal 2012, 77 (distribution); Calor 2011, 320 (checklist).

Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Atopsyche (Atopsaura) longipennis Group ( Schmid 1989) and resembles A. galharada in the short and broad first article of each inferior appendage. Atopsyche plancki can be recognized from its congeners by the first article of each inferior appendage short and broad, with an acute apicoventral process.

Description. Overall body color yellow to light brown. Frons and vertex of head with elongate, erect, brown and whitish setae; dorsum of thorax covered by elongate, erect brown and whitish setae. Antennal scapes with long light and dark brown and yellowish setae, pedicels and basal flagellomeres yellow and apical flagellomeres brown. Maxillary and labial palps with long, brown setae. Forewings light brown with darker shade of brown in posteroventral margin, erect setae of veins forming irregular pattern of alternate brown and yellow setae, apex with fringe of alternating patches of light brown and yellow setae; proctiger, in lateral view, very broad apically with dorsal and posteroventral margin covered with long brown setae.

Material examined. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais, Rio Caraça, near Santa Barbara, 20°01.371’S, 43°28.750’W, el. 728 m, 09.xi.2001, Holzenthal, R., Paprocki, H. Blahnik, R. & Amarante, M.; Det. Blahnik, R., 2002, UMSP 000080620 to 000080637, 5 males, 13 females (pinned, MZSP); Rio de Janeiro, Rio Macaé, Macaé de Cima, 22°23.684’S, 42°30.136’W, 1000 m, 08.iii.2002, Holzenthal R., Blahnik, R., Paprocki, H., Prather, A.; Det. Blahnik, R., 2003 UMSP 000086049 e 000086050, 2 males (pinned, MZSP); same data except Rio das Flores, Macaé de Cima, 10 Km SE Mury, el. 1000 m, 09.iii.2002, Holzenthal R., Blahnik, R., Paprocki, H. & Prather, A.; Det. Blahnik, R., 2003, UMSP 000088420 to 000088424, 1 male, 4 females (pinned, MZSP); Santa Catarina, Parque Ecológico Spitzkopf, confl. Rio Ouro & Rio Caeté 27°00.352’S, 49°06.693’W, el. 140 m, 25.xi.2003, Holzenthal R., Paprocki, H. & Calor, A.R., 3 males (alcohol, MZSP); São Paulo, Iporanga, Parque Estadual Intervales, 16.xii.1999, light, Bispo, P. & Crisci-Bispo, V., 1 male (alcohol, MZSP).

Distribution. Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo).