Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Leptonema trispicatum
MALE.—Color of specimen in alcohol, pale brown. Length of forewing 17 mm.
Malar space rather broad, about width of eye. Parafacial area about width of malar. Postocular area slightly narrower than malar; with a row of 6 stout setae. Maxillary palpus with apical segment very long, as long as combined length of other segments. Process of fifth sternum broad, round.
Genitalia: Tenth tergum with wart a large, rounded; warts b and c lacking; lateral lobe elongate, broadly truncate apically; mesal lobe membranous. Clasper with apical segment slender, about as long as basal segment; base of clasper unmodified. Phallus ending in a large, rounded, heavily sclerotized b–c lobe slightly divided apicomesally and bearing 2 small pairs of lobes dorsally and a pair of ventrobasal lobes; phallobase ending in a midventral, trifid projection between the ventrobasal lobes of b–c.
FEMALE.—Unknown.
TYPE.—Holotype male, BRAZIL, Edo. São Paulo, Municipalidad de Iporanga, 1 Nov 1961, Lenko and Reichardt.
Holotype in USP.
DISTRIBUTION.—The Andes of western South America from central Venezuela to northwestern Argentina.
- bibliographic citation
- Flint, Oliver S., Jr., McAlpine, J. F., and Ross, H. H. 1987. "A Revision of the Genus Leptonema Guérin (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae: Macronematinae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-193. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.450
