Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969

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 : 49

Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969

( Figs. 34 , 35 )

Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969: 3 , figs. 1–8 (habitus, wings, legs, female terminalia and genitalia, male terminalia and genitalia). Refs. Adams (1969), Penny (1977), Ardila-Camacho & Noriega (2014). Holotype female, PMY.

Type-locality. Chile: Ñuble , Las Cabras, "S. of Chilian vulcain", 36°49’S −71°26’W, elev. 1480 m, 10~ 23 Dec. 1954, Luis E. Peña, leg. (Holotype ♂) (PMY).

Material examined. “ Chile: Ñuble, Las Cabras, S. of Chiltan Yukain, 1480 m, 10−23 Dec 54, L.E. Peña. (Paratype)” (1♀ PMY).

Distribution ( Fig. 43 ). Chile (Ñuble, Talca); Argentina (Neuquén).

Principal characteristics. Head yellow with a brown spot at anterior mandibular articulation ( Fig. 34 B); border of ocelli black; vertex yellow with some pale amber setae; antennae yellow and covered by pale brown setae. Pronotum yellow, with lateral dark stripes on the sides and, with long, pale setae, almost twice as long as wide; meso- and metanota have many black spots on the sides and a median yellow line. Legs are pale amber with spurs short. Wings have membrane hyaline with an irregular pigmentation pattern consisting of amber suffusions and pale areas, veins vary from light brown to mottled dark brown ( Fig. 34 A), nygmata dark; forewing with many pale regions on basal area and a pale line directed toward wing apex; hindwing with light amber suffusions at distal half, bordering crossveins and some regions of longitudinal veins, mainly MA, MP and Rs branches. Abdomen pale, tergites 1–7 fuscous.

Male ( Figs. 35 A, B). Ninth gonocoxites suspended in apical margin of ninth tergite; prominent complex of tenth gonocoxites is sclerotized medially and membranous laterally; hypandriun internum weakly sclerotized.

Female ( Figs. 35 C–E). Fused eighth gonocoxites + gonapophyses concave, gonapophyses with a median hook anteromedially; fused ninth gonapophyses narrowed with two apical lobes; a black stripe on ninth gonocoxites; spheroidal spermathecae.

Figures

FIGURE 34. Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969, female. A) Habitus dorsal; B) Habitus lateral; C) Head and thorax, dorsal view; D) Labels. Photos provided by Leonard Munstermann and Raymond Pupedis (Peabody Museum of Natural History (PMY), New Haven, USA).

FIGURE 35. Phymatosmylus caprorum Adams, 1969. A) Male terminalia, lateral view; B) Male genitalia, ventral view; C) Female terminalia, lateral view; D) Female genitalia, ventral view; E) Spermatheca. ect (ectoproct), gcx VIII (eighth gonocoxite), gcx IX (ninth gonocoxite), gcx X (tenth gonocoxite), gph VIII (eighth gonapophysis), gph IX (ninth gonapophysis), S VIII (eighth sternite), S IX (ninth sternite), T VIII (eighth tergite), T IX (ninth tergite). (A – E after Adams 1969, 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.