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Chimarra (Curgia) moesta Banks
Chimarra (Curgia) moesta Banks, 1924:449.—Fischer, 1961:67.—Flint, 1967b:4 [figure of female genitalia attributed erroneously to holotype].
Chimarra (Curgia) alayoi Botosaneanu, 1980:96 [new synonymy].
MATERIAL EXAMINED.—“Cuba, Ch. Wright,” “MCZ Type 14876,” holotype (MCZ). PCIA. PINAR DEL RIO, Arroyo del Pinar del Viñales [“a very clear and fast flowing brook, found in a pine forest very near Viñales”] [no date], P. Alayo, allotype, 1 paratype (NMNH).
ETYMOLOGY.—Probably from the Latin moestus (“sorrowful”), in allusion to its somber color.
- bibliographic citation
- Flint, Oliver S., Jr. 1998. "Studies of Neotropical Caddisflies, LIII: A Taxonomic Revision of the Subgenus Curgia of the Genus Chimarra (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-131. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.594
