Chimarra (Curgia) tamba Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) tamba

ADULT.—Length of forewing, 7–8 mm. Color brownish; body and appendages stramineous; forewing dark brown (especially veins), with scattered, obscure darker maculae. Claws of male foreleg apparently unmodified.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsally; tergum with an elongate posterolateral stalk with few long setae and scattered apicomesal spiculae, with a pair of large, horizontal plates mesally, with ventral surfaces densely spinose, with slender, pale processes dorsolaterally bearing several, long apical setae; with posterior margin deeply incised mesally in dorsal aspect, with a central, inverted V-shaped mark. Ninth sternum greatly produced anteroventrally; with elongate, posteromesal keel; produced dorsally into a thin, broad plate beneath mesal brushes of eighth tergum and with dorsolateral angles produced anteriad between the lateral lobes and the mesal plate of the eighth tergum. Cercus elongate, flared laterad, rounded apically. Tenth tergum with tip entire, apex rounded, arched, with a dorsal knob at midlength; with many sensillae. Clasper short, trianguloid; with a mesoventral tooth barely visible in ventral aspect. Phallus short, tubular, base inflated (now broken off), with apicolateral face produced; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly, a pair of slender curved spines, the longer of which is bifid apically, and a small, dark, apical spine.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: PERU, DPTO. CUSCO, Pcia. Paucartambo, streamlet 50 m E Quitacalzón at km 164 (13°01.6′S, 71°30.0′W), 32 km NW Pilcopata, 1050 m, 2 Sep 1989, N. Adams et al. NMNH Type.

Paratypes: Same data as holotype, but Puente San Pedro at km 152 (13°03.3′S, 71°32.8′W), 44 km NW Pilcopata, 1450 m, 2–3 Sep 1988, O. Flint and N. Adams, 1 (NMNH). Santa Isabel, Cosñipata Valley, 30 Nov 1951, Felix Woytkowski, 1 (INHS).

ETYMOLOGY.—A name suggested by the locality Paucartambo.

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