Leucotrichia brochophora Flint 1991

Leucotrichia brochophora

This species is also a member of the melleopicta group, rather similar to L. interrupta, new species. From the latter it is distinguished by the rounded apex of the claspers, the row of short truncate setae dorsolaterally on the ninth tergum, and the very short eighth sternum.

ADULT.—Length of forewing, 5.5 mm. Color fuscous, marked with grayish-green; front of head, tegulae and mesonotum laterally grayish-green (fuscous centrally); antennae fuscous, annulate with greenish-white hair; forewing fuscous, with basal ¾ grayish-green, with apical green margin very oblique across wing, anterior and posterior margins of wing narrowly fuscous. Head with 3 ocelli, unmodified (as in melleopicta). Male genitalia: Sixth sternum with a small posteromesal point; seventh sternum damaged here, but probably with a process of some sort. Eighth sternum relatively short, with posterior margin produced laterally, in ventral aspect indistinct mesally, apparently concave. Ninth segment with anterolateral angle rounded; posterolateral margin with a dense row of long setae ventrally, with a dense cluster of 6–8 enlarged, truncate setae dorsolaterally; with anterodorsal margin slightly concave. Tenth tergite large, apical margin strongly sclerotized; lateral penis sheath rounded. Subgenital plate with ventral arm sharply pointed apically (in ventral aspect tip bifid), curving dorsad basally underneath penis sheath. Clasper elongate, slightly curved, blunt apically. Phallus tubular basally; midlength complex bearing a large basal loop arising from a large basolateral hooplike structure; apical section with paired dorsal projections and a pair of ventral processes.

MATERIAL.—Holotype, male: COLOMBIA. DPTO. ANTIOQUIA: Quebrada Espadera, 7 km E Medellín [road to Sta. Elena], 24 Feb 1983, O.S. Flint, Jr. USNM Type.