Chimarra (Curgia) minca Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) minca

ADULT.—Length of forewing, 6–7 mm. Color pale brown; body and appendages stramineous; forewing stramineous, with scattered flecks of darker hair. Claws of male foreleg apparently unmodified.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsally; tergum with brush on a short stalk from posterolateral face; posterior margin bearing many long setae, with a dorsomesal excision, and bearing beneath here a small, hirsute lobe. Ninth sternum slightly produced anteroventrally; with posteromesal keel; produced dorsally into a plate, between lateral brushes of eighth tergum. Cercus elongate, flared laterad, enlarged apicad. Tenth tergum with tip entire, but with dorsomesal groove; with basolateral, shoulder-like lobe, with an upcurved, slender process on each side from base of mesal lobe, apex of mesal lobe arched, hood-like, with many sensillae. Clasper slightly elongate, tip narrowly rounded, with a transverse ridge in ventral aspect. Phallus short, tubular, inflated basally, with apicolateral face produced; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly, a pair of slender, curved, basal spines, and a pair of stout, dark, apical spines.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: VENEZUELA, EDO. BARINAS, 15 km southwest Barinitas, 25 Feb 1969, Duckworth and Dietz. NMNH Type.

Paratype: COLOMBIA [DPTO. MAGDALENA], Minca, June, Carnegie Museum Acc. # 1999, 1 (CMNH).

ETYMOLOGY.—A name suggested by the locality Minca.

Chimarra minca là một loài Trichoptera trong họ Philopotamidae. Chúng phân bố ở vùng Tân nhiệt đới.