Atopsyche (Atopsaura) serica Ross 1953

Gomes, Victor & Calor, Adolfo Ricardo, 2016, Taxonomy of Atopsyche Banks (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae) from Brazil: New species, distributional notes and identification key, Zootaxa 4139 (1), pp. 51-75 : 62-63

Atopsyche (Atopsaura) serica Ross 1953

Atopsyche (Atopsaura) serica Ross 1953 , 292 (Type locality: Brazil, Nova Teutônia, 27°11’S, 52°23’W, 04.x.1939, Fritz Plaumann; holotype depository: MCZ; male); Paprocki et al. 2004, 7 (checklist).

Diagnosis. This species belongs to the Atopsyche (Atopsaura) longipennis Group and most closely resembles A. longipennis in the short parapods and filipods and A. hamata in the curved first article of each inferior appendage. It is distinguished from them by an extra pair of short lateral processes below the filipods and a sclerotized horseshoe-shaped or hood-like structure above the opening for the phallic apparatus ( Ross 1953).

Description. Frons and vertex of head with elongate, erect brown and whitish setae; dorsum of thorax covered by elongate, erect, brown, whitish and yellowish setae; forewings brown, covered by short brown and yellow setae, erect setae of veins forming irregular pattern of alternating brown and yellow setae, apices with fringes of alternating patches of brown and yellow setae.

Material examined. BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul, São José dos Ausentes, 8°57’6.07”S, 49°92’0.00”W, el. 1250 m, 11.xii.2007, Melo, A. & Ferro, V., 3 males (pinned, MZSP); same data except 28.61973S, 49.85281W, el. 1205 m, 19.i.2007, Melo, A. & Ferro, V., 3 males (pinned, MZSP); Santa Catarina, Parque Ecológico Spitzkopf, confl. Rio Ouro & Rio Caeté 27°00.352’S, 49° 06.693W, el. 140 m, 25.xi.2003, Holzenthal, R.W., Paprocki, H. & Calor, A.R., 4 males, 1 female (pinned; MZSP); Blumenau, 04.xii.1975, Exc. Dep. Zool. USP, 2 males, 2 females (alcohol, MZSP).

Distribution. Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina).