Paraglenanthe bahamensis Wirth 1956

Paraglenanthe bahamensis Wirth

Paraglenanthe bahamensis Wirth, 1956:8; 1968:6 [Neotropical catalog].

SPECIMENS EXAMINED.—BELIZE. Belize District: Turneffe Islands: Blackbird Caye (17°19′N, 87°48′W), Mar 1993, W.N. Mathis (9, 2); Soldier Cay (17°20′N, 87°47′W), Mar 1993, W.N. Mathis (11, 3). Stann Creek District: Tobacco Range, Jul 1989, W.N. Mathis, H.B. Williams (7, 5); Wee Wee Cay, Nov 1987, W.N. and D. Mathis (7, 8). Glover's Reef (Southwest Cay), Jul 1989, W.N. Mathis (4).

DISTRIBUTION.—Neotropical: Bahamas, Belize, West Indies (Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman, Jamaica, Puerto Rico).

NATURAL HISTORY.—All of the specimens from Wee Wee Cay were collected by sweeping very slowly just over the blue-green algal mat on the habitat described under Wee Wee Cay. On Tobacco Range, the specimens occurred on a small, bare sand spit that was in a protected cove.

DIAGNOSIS.—Only three species are known in the genus Paraglenanthe, and this species is distinguished from its congeners by the following combination of characters: body entirely whitish to whitish gray, microtomentose, lacking distinctly contrasted dark brown, broad stripe on notopleuron and anepisternum; gena short, eye-to-cheek ratio averaging 0.40; head generally shorter and broader in comparison with height, making facial carina between antennal bases more prominent.

Discocerina Macquart, 1835:527 [type species: Notiphila pusilla Meigen, 1830 (= Notiphila obscurella Fallen. 1813). by subsequent designation. Cresson, 1925b:253).