Arenivaga delicata Hopkins 2014

Male. Measurements. Holotype TL = 17.7 mm, GW = 8.0 mm, PW = 4.76 mm, PL = 3.23 mm, TL/GW = 2.21, PL/PW = 0.68. EW = 0.40 mm; OW = 0.30 mm. Among paratypes range of TL 14.7–17.7 mm; range of GW 6.9–8.4 mm; range of PW 4.28–4.76 mm; range of PL 3.07–3.42 mm. Head. Two ocelli very large, ovoid and protruding (0.4 × 0.3 mm); vertex dark brown with small ridges in rays around upper apex of eyes and extending onto ocellar tubercles; interocellar space concave, smooth, medium brown; two round indentations medial to ocelli. Frons pale beige, concave; clypeus bulbous; pale beige anteclypeus. See Fig. 39d. Pronotum. Pronotum translucent, waxy beige; dorsal surface of pronotum with short fine light orange-brown setae centrally and posteriorly grading to longer, thicker setae laterally and anteriorly; pronotal pattern orange-brown “panther face” with no discernible detail; orange-brown posterior aura. See Fig. 39c. Body. Wing brace present. Two tarsal claws present. Legs and body light brown with darker brown maculations laterally on each sternite; subgenital plate light brown; asymmetrical with rounded apices. See Fig. 39b. Forewings. Wings extended well beyond abdominal apex (~45% of wing length); color golden with light to medium brown splotches depending on specimen; surface translucent and lustrous. See Fig. 39a. Genitalia. Right dorsal phallomere composed of bulbous lightly sclerotized hook-shaped lobe, articulated with right ventral phallomere on lateral side; central field lightly sclerotized; medial margin short, shagreened with toothed margin. Small central sclerite shaped like clamshell, finely punctate with crossing band of teeth one third of distance from anterior end; right ventral phallomere extends from articulation to form rounded punctate structure; attached anteriorly is mildly dorsally projecting flanged arm, shagreened with roughly toothed edge. Folded anterior portion of left phallomere setose, otherwise unmodified. Genital hook with short extension to pointed rounded head and short hook; arm smoothly curving. See Fig. 40.

This species is distributed from Willow Spring, CA in the north and west to Blythe, CA in the south and east. See Fig. 41.