Egidemia speculifera (Walker 1851)

Diagnosis. General coloration brownish, with yellow maculae on crown, pronotum and scutellum; in lateral view, lateral portion of clypeus, genae and pleurae pale yellow; forewings subhyaline with fuzzy reddish spot on costal margin close to anteapical cells. Male: pygofer with unbranched processes; aedeagus in lateral view, narrowest in apical half of its length, without processes [Note. There is a mistake in the numbers of Egidemia figures in Young’s (1968) work. The aedeagus of E. speculifera is actually Figure 169f. This mistake was also noted by Mejdalani & García (2011)].

Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig. 6), with lateral margins parallel, lateroposterior margins strongly convergent posteriorly, and posterior margin emarginate medially; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and macrosetae on posterior two-thirds of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, ovoid-shaped, with small spiniform processes on anterior region, and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute (Fig. 26), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margin. Second valvulae, in lateral view, slightly convex beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 30 to 31 noncontiguous teeth, larger in proximal portion and smaller teeth in distal portion of blade; each tooth triangular, with denticles on posterior margin (Fig. 46); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex obtuse (Fig. 66), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; preapical ventral prominence conspicuous. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with basal half narrow and arcuate, and apical half distinctly expanded; apex rounded.

Material examined. ARGENTINA. Misiones: El Soberbio, 1♂ 3♀, X/1947, M.J. Viana (MACN); San Pedro, 1♀, 16/XI/1973, Escobar & Claps; Dos de Mayo, 1♀, 18/XI/1973, Escobar & Claps (IMLA). Distribution. Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (Young 1968): Misiones (Paradell et al. 2012).