Zuata ravidella (Lallemand)

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Zuata ravidella (Lallemand) , redefined.

Tomaspis ravidella Lallemand, 1924: 379 (to Zuata: Fennah, 1968 ) Tomaspisinella callangana Lallemand, 1949: 116 , syn.nov.

Tomaspisinella infuscata Lallemand, 1949: 117 , syn.nov.

Remarks. Both the types from Bolivia are similarly colored to T. callangana from southern Peru (12o34'S 76o19W, the type-locality also for Z. luteomaculata ). The senior name is based on a male slightly larger (8.5.mm) than the two female types (7.5–8 mm). It will take considerably more specimens and/or barcoding to validate additional species where morphological characters are so indefinite.

Zuata scapula sp. nov.

Etymology. scapula (noun), shoulder-blade.

Diagnosis. Black with brown legs and white outer two-thirds of clavus ( Fig. 13 A).

Description. Male pygofer with thumblike process on truncate posterior margin below anal tube (as in Fig. 37 A); subgenital plates short, in lateral aspect with quadrate spine, otherwise shaped as in Z. oneraria ( Fig. 37 A); style humpbacked as in Z. ravida ( Carvalho & Webb 2005, fig. 15c) but tip longer; theca nearly straight and parallel-margined to blunt tip bearing 5 pairs of spines as in Z. araguana ( Carvalho & Webb 2005, fig. 19a), a strongly curved pair on caudal surface with a longer pair appressed to shaft below these, and on anterior surface of shaft 3 pairs of increasing length, the lowest as long as the corresponding spine on caudal surface, also appressed to shaft ( Fig. 40 B). Female unknown. Length: 5.9 mm, width across eyes 1.6 mm, across pronotum 1.9 mm; length of eye 0.5 mm, of side margins of pronotum 0.5 mm.

Type. Holotype male, PERU, Cuzco ─ Santa Isabel , 11 Dec. 1951 (F.L. Woythoski), in NMNH .