Russelliana sp. 17

Material examined. Chile: 3 ♂, V Region, Province Los Andes, El Juncal, 2200 m, 24.xii.1998, alpine scrub with low bushes (D. Burckhardt) #6 (NHMB, dry).

Comments. The specimens resemble R. marionae and theresae, in long genal processes, long antennae, a forewing membrane with a distinct brown pattern, and in a paramere bearing a finger-shaped apico-anterior process of a length subequal to an apico-posterior lobe. They differ from the two species in a smaller size and a less extensive forewing pattern which is mostly restricted to its apical part, and from R. marionae in a broader paramere lobe.