15. Soyedina amicalola Verdone & Kondratieff, 2017

Georgia Forestfly

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(Figs. 105–108)

Soyedina amicalola Verdone & Kondratieff 2017:31 . Holotype male (United States National Museum), Little Amicalola Creek, Amicalola Falls State Park, Dawson Co., Georgia, USA

Soyedina amicalola Grubbs & Baumann, 2019:238

Distribution. USA: GA (DeWalt et al. 2022)

Male. Macropterous. Body length 6.4–6.6 mm, forewing length 7.8–7.9 mm (n = 3, in Verdone et al. 2017). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified. Paraprocts with two lobes, inner lobes lightly sclerotized and inconspicuous; outer lobes sclerotized, large and robust for genus, in basal half bulbous, slightly tapered to a prominent anteriorly-directed spur (Fig. 108). Epiproct asymmetric, typical for genus (Fig. 105); ventral sclerites partially recurved over abdomen, distinctly asymmetric, apically narrowly triangular (Fig. 105); dorsal sclerites distinctly asymmetric, appearing scaly at higher magnifications (Figs. 105, 107); open apically, inner member heavily sclerotized, terminates apically as a straight-sided blunt process, apically triangular in shape and open caudally (Figs. 105‒107).

Female. Unknown.

Larva. Unknown.

Comments. This species is presently known only from two locations in the southern Blue Ridge Province in north Georgia (Verdone et al. 2017, Grubbs & Baumann 2019).