Chimarra (Curgia) claviloba Flint 1974

Chimarra (Curgia) claviloba Flint

Chimarrha (C.) claviloba Flint, 1974:22.

ADULT.—Length of forewing, 6.5 mm. Color probably fuscous when alive.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum enlarged dorsad; tergum with posterior margin produced mesally and with small apical excision; in lateral aspect with small, dark tooth laterad of mesal lobe. Ninth sternum with anteroventral margin produced; with large, terete, posteromesal process; dorsum broad, produced over tenth tergal base as rounded mesal lobe, with short, dorsolateral processes. Cercus elongate. Tenth tergum deeply divided mesally; lateral plate in lateral aspect pointed apicad with dorsal knob bearing sensillae. Clasper elongate, narrow, subapically produced into dorsally directed tooth. Phallus tubular, base inflated; internally with rod-and-ring assembly and six small spines; apically with numerous short hairs.

RECORDED FROM.—SURINAME, Nassau Mountains, km 11.2, creek, Mar 1949, D.C. Geijskes, holotype (RNH, not restudied).

ETYMOLOGY.—From the Latin clava (“club”) and lobus (“projection”), in allusion to the shape of the cercus.