Plectropsyche Ross 1947

Bueno-Soria, Joaquín & Barba-Alvarez, Rafael, 2015, New species of Plectropsyche Ross 1947 (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae: Hydropsychinae), Zootaxa 4040 (4), pp. 421-432 : 423

Plectropsyche Ross 1947

Plectropsyche Ross 1947 , 141–142, 144. Type species: Plectropsyche hoogstraali Ross (original designation). Oláh & Johanson, 2008, 176, as a synonym of Cheumatopsyche ; Geraci et al. 2010, 925, restored to valid genus Plectropsyche .

Plectropsyche spp. have each front wing ( Fig. 1 A) with the cross-vein cu situated beneath the fork of M and not more than its own length basad of the m-cu; vein 1A has a linear tuft of stout setae about midway between the fusion of 1A and 2A and the apex of 1A, the tuft occupying about one-sixth of this fragment of the vein. Each hind wing ( Fig. 1 B) has Cu2 and 1A joining to form a sharp angle and R2 is present. Because of the presence of only three extant and one fossil species, Plectropsyche is a small genus in the family Hydropsychidae .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Plectrosyche hoogstraali Ross, wings. 1 A, right forewing, dorsal; 1 B, right hind wing, dorsal, Specimen from NICARAGUA: Ocotal, Rio Coco.