Isostenosmylus fusciceps Kimmins, 1940

Martins, Caleb Califre, Ardila-Camacho, Adrian & Aspöck, Ulrike, 2016, Neotropical osmylids (Neuroptera, Osmylidae): Three new species of Isostenosmylus Krüger, 1913, new distributional records, redescriptions, checklist and key for the Neotropical species, Zootaxa 4149 (1), pp. 1-66 : 31-34

Isostenosmylus fusciceps Kimmins, 1940

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Isostenosmylus fusciceps Kimmins, 1940: 181 , fig. 14, plate III.1 (male terminalia and genitalia, wings). Refs. Kimmins (1940), Penny (1977), Ardila-Camacho & Noriega (2014). Holotype male, BMNH.

Type-locality. Peru: Cañete, Callanga.

Material examined. Paratype, “ Peru: Cañete, Callanga,” (1♂ BMNH).

Distribution ( Fig. 43 ). Peru (Cañete).

Principal characteristics. Head dark brown; vertex, frons to below antennae, and genae fuscous; antennae with scape and pedicel pale brown; flagellum amber, covered by elongate brown setae; palpi dark brown. Pronotum dark brown; twice as long as broad; covered with very long dark brown setae arising from protuberant bases, mainly laterally; meso and metanota dark brown with darker marks. Legs yellowish with small black spots. Wings hyaline ( Fig. 19 B); veins mainly brownish with some yellowish areas; forewing with some black spots, mainly around the wing margin, along anterior radial and subcostal trace; hindwing without dark spots. Abdomial tergites dark brown and yellow.

Male ( Fig. 20 ). Ectoproct small, with a pointed posteromedial lobe in lateral view; in dorsal view with that lobe broad, spatulated; ninth tergite rhomboidal in lateral view; medial lobe of ninth gonocoxites (tenth sternite of Kimmins 1940) is a short quadrate plate with some setae; complex of tenth gonocoxites (paramere of Kimmins 1940) has on its upper region a downwardly directed branch; basal branches are posteriorly directed and lying near each other, the basal branch is broad and the medial one is thin ( Kimmins 1940).

Figures

FIGURE 19. Holotype of Isostenosmylus fusciceps Kimmins, 1940, male. A) Habitus dorsal; B) Wings; C) Labels. Photos provided by Benjamin Price (Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, England, United Kingdom).

FIGURE 20. Holotype of Isostenosmylus fusciceps Kimmins, 1940, male. A – B) Terminalia, lateral view; C) gcx IX + gph IX, lateral view; D) Complex of gcx X, lateral view. ect (ectoproct), gcx IX (ninth gonocoxite), gph IX (ninth gonapophysis), S VII (seventh sternite), S VIII (eighth sternite), S IX (ninth sternite), T VII (seventh tergite), T VIII (eighth tergite), T IX (ninth sternite). Photos provided by Benjamin Price (Natural History Museum (BMNH), London, England, United Kingdom). (C and D after Kimmins, 1940, modified).

FIGURE 43. Distribution of Neotropical Osmylidae species. 1) white star, I. contrerasi; cross, Isostenosmylus sp.; red star, I. bifurcatus n. sp.; white triangle, I. septemtrionalandinus; white circle, I. fasciatus; red triangle, I. irroratus n. sp. 2) asterisk, I. nigrifrons; cross, I. morenoi; red circle, I. julianae n. sp.; star, I. fusciceps; white circle, I. fasciatus. 3) circle, I. pulverulentus; red star, G. adspersus. 4) white star, K. digoniostigma; white circle, K. tjederi; green circle, K. falcatus; red triangle, K. crenatus; cross, Ph. caprorum.