Mortoniella (Mortoniella) wygodzinskii (Schmid)

Blahnik, Roger J. & Holzenthal, Ralph W., 2017, Revision of the northern South American species of Mortoniella Ulmer 1906 (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae: Protoptilinae) *, Insecta Mundi 2017 (602), pp. 1-251 : 44

Mortoniella (Mortoniella) wygodzinskii (Schmid)

Fig. 27

Mexitrichia wygodzinskii Schmid, 1958: 194 ; Flint 1963: 465 [possibly in Mortoniella ]; Knutson and Flint 1979: 32 [ Empididae predators in pupal cocoons].

Mortoniella wygodzinskii (Schmid) : Sykora 1999: 385 [distribution, member of wygodzinskii subgroup]; Rueda Martín and Gibon 2008: 223 [reillustration, distribution]; Blahnik and Holzenthal 2008: 70 [member of bilineata group]; Blahnik and Holzenthal 2011: 63 [redescription, reillustration].

This species was redescribed in the paper by Blahnik and Holzenthal (2011) and is refigured here for completeness of coverage. Specimens seem to vary somewhat in the length of the inferior appendages, which are unusually elongate as a species characteristic. The elongate inferior appendages, strongly arched and elongate tergum X, and very short (almost vestigial) paramere appendages are all diagnostic features of this very distinctive species.

Material examined — VENEZUELA: Trujillo: Quebrada Potrerito, 7.5 km NE Boconó, 9.27392°

N, 70.21837° W, 1530 m, 29-30.iv.1995, Holzenthal, Cressa, Gulic– 1 male (pinned) ( UMSP). Distribution — Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela.

Figures

Figure 27. Mortoniella (Mortoniella) wygodzinskii (Schmid), male genitalia. A—lateral; B—segment IX and tergum X, dorsal; C—phallic ensemble, ventral.