Zumatrichia galtena Mosely 1937

Zumatrichia galtena Mosely

Zumatrichia galtena Mosely, 1937, p. 188.—Fischer, 1961, p. 176.

This species is rather common and widespread over much of Mexico and Central America. It is closest to Z. saluda, new species, from which it differs in possessing a cluster of fingerlike appendages at the apex of the basodorsal processes of the clasper, and in having short ventral and long lateral spines in the apex of the aedeagus.

ADULT.—Length of forewing, 2.5–3.5 mm. Coloration typical pattern of grayish green and fuscus. Male genitalia: Eighth sternum without processes; with a narrow midventral cleft. Ninth segment with anterolateral angle slightly developed; posterolateral process slender with a single apical seta. Lateral penis sheath large, rounded, slightly more than twice as long as broad, with a midventral tooth. Clasper with a long, slightly sinuate basodorsal process ending in a cluster of 4–5 fingerlike processes; ventral lobe bearing slender apicolateral processes. Aedeagus with rounded lateral plates, a slender middorsal process sheltering a pair of long, slender spines, a slightly curved, shorter, midventral spine, basally with a large number of small, internal spines.

MATERIAL.—MEXICO: VERA CRUZ: La Gloria Cardel, Jan. 1938, J. Camelo G, 5 . CHIAPAS: Puente Arroyo Viejo, Route 200, km. 141, 9 June 1967, Flint and Ortiz, 2 . HONDURAS: COMAYAGUA: Rio Humuya, northwest of Comayagua, 3 Aug. 1967, O. S. Flint, Jr., 65 . COSTA RICA: GUANACASTE: Las Canas, 13 July 1965, P. J. Spangler, 2 ; Rio Corobici, Las Canas, 26 July 1967, O. S. Flint, Jr., 21 ; Rio Ahogados, 10 miles northwest of Liberia, 25 July 1965, P. J. Spangler, 3 .