Evansolidia lyrata, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, 2953, Zootaxa 2953, pp. 1-85 : 37

Evansolidia lyrata , sp. nov.

( Plate 4I, Figs. 266–274)

Length. Male 7.70–8.00 mm; female unknown.

External morphology. Medium size, robust species. General color black and yellow. Forewings with yellow veins and cells on middle of clavus, cells translucent except on distal ¼; mesonotum with yellow marking basally and on each side of middle, yellow stripe on anterior half of lateral margins; pronotum with yellow broken band on anterior margin, irregular shaped yellow markings below anterior margin; crown yellow with black spot on each side of middle near anterior margin; eyes dark grey; face yellow with reddish brown longitudinal stripe on lateral margins of clypeus; clypellus with reddish brown bordered by black stripe on lateral margins, black stripe below eyes ( Plate 4I). Head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, about as wide as width of eyes, produced distally about ¼ of entire length, lateral margins convergent basally, slightly carinate, disk depressed on each side of middle; eyes large, semiglobular; pronotum about as long as median length of crown, surface sparsely bullated; mesonotum large, nearly twice as long as median length of pronotum; forewings typical; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, inflated baso-medially, lateral margins constricted medially.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view broad, subtriangulate, small digital lobe and few setae on caudodorsal margin ( Fig. 266); subgenital plate long, narrow, few setae apically ( Fig. 267); style robust, shorter than aedeagus, in lateral view broadly expanded medially on lateral margin ( Figs. 268, 269); aedeagus long, tubular, with few subbasal spines and 1 subapically ( Figs. 270, 271); connective broadly Y-shaped, membranous on each side of middle, stem broad, very short ( Fig. 272); dorsal connective long, narrow, base expanded in dorsal view ( Fig. 273), sinuate in lateral view ( Fig. 274).

Material examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: Vaupés, R.N. Mosiro-Itajura (Caparú), Centro Ambiental , 1º4’S.– 69º31’W., 60 mm., Malaise, 1/20/03–2/1/03, M. Sharkey & D. Arias, leg., M. 3386 ( IAHC) . Paratypes. 3 males, same data as holotype ( IAHC, UK) , 1 male, Putumayo, PNN Las Paya Viviano Cocha, Camino Cecillo Cocha, 0º8’S.– 74º57’W., 210 m., Malaise, 1/26/03–1/29/03, C. Sarmiento Y M. Macanilla, leg., M. 3415 ( UK), 1 male, Putumayo, PNN La Paya Salso Grande, 0º1’S – 74º56’W., 330 m. ( MLBM).

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the many spines on the aedeagus.

Remarks. This species has similar aedeagal features to E. gracilitas , sp. nov. and can be separated by the much broader style, larger pygofer and longer pregenital plate and aedeagus.