Chimarra (Curgia) macara Flint 1998

Chimarra (Curgia) macara

ADULT.—Length of forewing, and 6.5–7 mm. Color brown; body and appendages paler; forewing light yellowish brown, with many small, dark flecks. Claws of male foreleg apparently unmodified.

Male Genitalia: Eighth sternum widened dorsally; tergum with posterior margin bearing a pair of rounded, lateral lobes; with a slender posterolateral lobe bearing an apical brush of setae, and a slender arm projecting directly mesad before curving dorsad and bearing a setal brush apically; setal brush connected by scattered setae along inner margin to lateral brush. Ninth sternum produced anteroventrally; with posteromesal keel; produced into long, slender, dorsal extension, articulating to inner surface of eighth tergum. Cercus elongate, enlarged apicad. Tenth tergum short, tip entire; apex curved dorsad, rounded apically in dorsal aspect; with many sensillae. Clasper elongate, thin, semierect; mesal margin in posterior aspect dark and slightly produced for dorsal half. Phallus short, tubular, inflated basally; internally with a small rod-and-ring assembly, without spines.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: ECUADOR, PCIA. LOJA, Macará to Catacocha, 650 m, 14 Aug 1977, L.E. Peña G. NMNH Type.

Paratypes: Same data as holotype, but Macará, 13 Aug 1977, 1, 2.

ETYMOLOGY.—A name suggested by the locality Macará.