Atopsyche (Atopsaura) conventica Flint 1974

Atopsyche conventica

This species is a distinctive member of the batesi group, close to A. cubana Flint. It differs most noticeably in the paracercus, with its very broad base and narrow, rounded apex, and in the trifid apex of the lateral lobes of the aedeagus.

ADULT.—Length of forewing 8 mm. Color dark brown, legs yellowish; forewing darker basally, but with a semicircular pale area in anal region, remainder irregularly flecked with paler and darker marks. Male abdomen with third and fourth terga impressed along anterior margin and bearing numerous short setae; fifth sternum with anterolateral process almost twice as long as sternum; sixth sternum with posteromesal process as long as sternum, that of seventh sternum about one-third length of sternum. Male genitalia: Ninth segment broad laterally, with posterior margin expanded into a thin plate; tenth tergum typical. Paracercus broad basally, narrowed into an elongate hoodlike apex. Filicercus long and slender; cercus elongate, apex rounded. Clasper with basal segment widened apicad, with a small apicoventral lobe, and a long, hooked apicodorsal lobe; apical segment slightly longer than apicodorsal lobe, widened subapically, with a small, pointed lobe on mesal face. Aedeagus with base elongate, with an articulated dorsal rod; lateral lobes apically produced into 3 small lobes; with a central spine.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Convento, 12 km S of Constanza, 6–13 June 1968, Flint and Gomez, USNM Type 72722. Paratype: Same data, 1 .