Polyplectropus kingsolveri Bueno-Soria, 1990

Chamorro, Maria Lourdes & Holzenthal, Ralph W., 2010, 2582, Zootaxa 2582, pp. 1-252 : 92-94

Polyplectropus kingsolveri Bueno-Soria

Figs. 16E, 45, 128

Polyplectropus kingsolveri Bueno-Soria, 1990: 375 . [Type locality: Mexico: Chiapas: Palenque ; IBUNAM; male.]

Polyplectropus kingsolveri is most similar to P. maesi Chamorro-Lacayo in the presence and shape of the dorsolateral process of the preanal appendage and in the overall shape of the intermediate appendage. Both species differ in the shape of the mesoventral process of the preanal appendage and in the shapes of the dorsal and ventral branches of the inferior appendage. P. kingsolveri has a quadrate (best viewed ventrally) ventral branch of the inferior appendage and the apex of the dorsal branch of the inferior appendage is oblong and not emarginate as in P. maesi . Furthermore, P. kingsolveri lacks peg-like setae on the ventral branch of the inferior appendage (present in P.maesi ).

Adult. Length of forewing 4.9 mm, n = 9. Color of head, thorax, and legs yellowish-brown; setae on body brown with clusters of grey setae on apex of head; tegulae with long, golden brown and grey setae; setae on wings golden brown along costal margin with patches of grey setae interspersed along margin and on most of wing surface.

Male genitalia. Sternum IX in lateral view deltoid, anterior margin submedially produced, posterior margin sinuate and medially produced; in ventral view rectangular, anterior margin concave, posterior margin with slight median flange. Tergum X membranous, oblong, bearing dorsal microsetae; lower lip of tergum X membranous, smooth, without dorsal microsetae; in dorsal view digitate; in caudal view produced dorsad of phallocrypt. Intermediate appendage as long as inferior appendage, narrowly digitate with long setae throughout; in dorsal view oblong, produced basomesally; in caudal view digitate, directed posterolaterad. Preanal appendage tripartite; dorsolateral process elongate, originating from dorsum of mesolateral process, directed anterad, recurved posteromesad then posterolaterad, tapering mesally into acute apex; mesolateral process setose; in dorsal view oblong, in lateral view oblong; mesoventral process setose, in lateral view digitate to quadrate, tapering ventrally into sclerotized apex, anteroventral margin concave, posterior margin rounded; in caudal view processes separated, ventral margin of process rounded, basally broad. Inferior appendage bipartite with anterior basal plate not extending anterad beyond sternum IX when observed in lateral view; dorsal branch setose, in lateral view clavate; in ventral view broad, lateral margin convex, entire, posterior margin rounded, mesal margin slightly undulate, subapically expanded, becoming concave, expanding posterad into ventral branch; ventral branch setose, elongate and broad; in lateral view quadrate, emarginate posterad, posterior margin concave, gradually converging mesally. Phallus long; dorsal phallic sclerite in lateral view cylindrical, apex oblong; apex of dorsal phallic sclerite in dorsal view emarginate; endothecal membrane without embedded spines.

Female genitalia. Similar to female of P. bredini .

Material Examined. BELIZE: Toledo: Columbia For [est] Sta [tion], 2.viii.1970, Y. Sedman — 1 male ( NMNH); MEXICO: Chiapas: Palenque, 19.v.1984, Garcia, Barrera, Ibarra — 8 males, 2 females [holotype & paratypes] ( IBUNAM) .

Distribution. Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico ( Bueno-Soria 1990; Flint et al. 1999).

Remarks. This species presents slight variations in the thickness of the dorsal branch of the inferior appendage; specimen from Belize has a slightly narrower branch.