Phera carbonaria (Melichar 1924)

Diagnosis. Crown and pronotum brownish, with longitudinal yellow line; proepimeron with lower marginal area depressed; anal veins fused along considerable distance. Male: aedeagus symmetrical, with pair of widely divergent and curved ventral processes.

Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig. 16), with lateral margins slightly convergent posteriorly, lateroposterior margins obtuse, and posterior margin with shallow elongated median emargination; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and a few macrosetae on posterior third of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes on ventral region and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scalelike processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute (Fig. 36), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 56 to 60 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth square-shaped, with denticles on posterior and dorsal margins (Fig. 56); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded (Fig. 76), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; slight preapical ventral prominence. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with small spiniform processes on ventral margin; apex rounded.

Material examined. ARGENTINA. Misiones: 3♂, without other data; Dep. Concepción, Santa María, 1♂, X/1946, M.J. Viana (MACN); Aristóbulo del Valle, 1♀, 2/XII/1960, A. Ogloblin; Iguazú, 3♂ 1♀, 10/XI/1973, Tonsic & Willink; 1♂, 4/IV/1910, Jörgensen; 1♂, 31/VIII/1910, Jörgensen; Parque Provincial Urugua-i, 1♂, 13/ XII/1957; San Javier, 1♂, 16/XII/1957, Biraben; Iguazú, 1♂, XI/1944, Biraben; Route 211 km 36, 26 °55´55´´S 54°43´4´´W, 1♀, 5/I/2008, light trap, C.H. Dietrich (MLP); Iguazú, 2♂, 10/XI/1973, Tonsic & Willink; Parque Nacional Iguazú, 1♂ 1♀, 10/XI/1973, Tonsic & Willink; Dos de Mayo, 1♂, 18/XI/1973, Escobar & Claps (IMLA).

Distribution. Brazil, Paraguay (Young 1968) and Argentina: Misiones (Paradell et al. 2012).