Chimarra (Curgia) sarophora Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) sarophora

ADULT.—Length of forewing, and 6–7 mm. Color brown, body and appendages paler; forewing light yellowish brown, with many small, dark flecks. Claws of male foreleg apparently unmodified.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsally; tergum with posterior margin produced into a pair of small, rounded, submesal lobes; with a hirsute posterolateral lobe that is produced into a large lobe held against inner face of tergum and is hirsute along inner margin. Ninth sternum produced anteroventrally; with slender posteromesal keel; produced into long, slender, dorsal extension, articulating to inner surface of eighth tergum. Cercus elongate, enlarged apicad. Tenth tergum short, tip entire; apex curved and produced sharply dorsad, rounded apically in dorsal aspect; with many sensillae. Clasper elongate, thin, semierect; mesal margin in posterior aspect dark and slightly produced for dorsal half. Phallus short, tubular, inflated basally; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly, without spines.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: PANAMA, Canal Zone [PCIA. COLÓN], Río Agua Salud, Pipeline Road, 8–12 Jul 1967, Flint and Ortiz. NMNH Type.

Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 2; same, but 30 Mar 1965, S.S. and W.D. Duckworth, 3, 1. PCIA. PANAMÁ, Barro Colorado Island, Snyder-Molino trail marker 3, 8 Apr 1987–12 Feb 1991, H. Wolda (light trap), 13, 12.

ETYMOLOGY.—From the Greek saron (“broom”) and the suffix -pher (“to bear”), in allusion to the brushes of the eighth tergum.