Dilasia microps (Champion, 1900) n. comb.

(Figs. 90–91)

Lasiochilus microps Champion, 1900: 308 .

Diagnostic characters: Measurements, see Table IV. Male: Characterized by the following combination of characters: head and pronotum reddish-brown, hemelytra brown, antennae and underside of body pale; antennal segment II thickened towards the apex, slightly longer than length of head; head prolonged anteriorly from base of antennae (Fig. 113); pronotum trapezoidal with lateral margins straight and anterior and posterior margins concave (Fig. 114); hemelytra covered by short pilosity; forefemora long, slightly thick; foretibiae armed with row of medium-sized spines on inner margin (Fig. 115), pads medium sized to small (Fig. 116); foretrochanters with characteristic spines (Fig. 117); ostiolar peritreme apically acute and slightly elevated; meso- and metasternum not sulcate medially, the latter elongate apically (Fig. 118); copulatory spines on left margin of VI sternite, thick, curved and densely arranged (Fig. 119); pygophore (Fig. 120) with left paramere large, wide, linear, rounded apically and with typical concavity on middle of inner margin (Fig. 121). Female: With parietovaginal gland inapparent (Fig. 122), seventh sternite with small punctures centrally (Fig. 123). Antennal segments (I:II:III:IV) 1: 2.8: 2.7: 2.7.

Distribution: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Guadeloupe, Colombia, Guyana. Its appearance in Nicaragua is a new distributional record. (Fig. 49).

Material examined: Holotype GUATEMALA: ♀ Type, B.C.A. Rhynch. II, Lasiochilus microps Ch., Cerro Zunil, 2–3000 ft., Ch. Holotype. BMNH ; COLOMBIA: ♀ on orchids, San Francisco, Cal., 30-VI-1938. MACN ; COSTA RICA: ♀ Puntarenas Prov., Rincón de Osa, Osa Península, 14/ 26-VII-1969, Toby Schuh Janet Crane. USNM ; GUYANA: ♀ Kartabo, ex Bromelia, 22-IX-1922, coll. H. D. Hartland, Brit. Mus. 1954-631. BMNH ; HONDURAS: ♀ in bananas, intercept. N. Orleans, 17-II-1936. USNM ; MEXICO: ♀ Veracruz, 29-VI-1943, Laredo, Texas, 32–200, lot 43–8252, in Baggage. USNM; NICARAGUA: ♂ ♀ Zelaya, Sulum, 14º15’N 84º36’W, I-1996, Maës-Hernandez. (slide-mounted). MACN .

Discussion: This species can be recognized from the other species of this genus by the typical shape of the left paramere that has a concavity on the middle of its inner margin.