Collaria boliviana Carvalho, 1990

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Collaria boliviana Carvalho, 1990

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Diagnosis: Head pale, with a transverse stripe between eyes, clypeus with a black spot; calli clearly dark; hemelytra with two lateral, pale roundish spots near middle of corium, cuneus mostly pale; endosoma with brush of long filaments below secondary gonopore, and long spiny sclerite, apically hooked, supporting endosomal membrane.

Distribution: Northeastern Bolivia, Pacific and Andean regions of Colombia, southeastern Brazil, eastern Ecuador, and the central region of Peru ( Carvalho 1990, Morales et al. 2016)

Plant associations: Unknown

Specimens examined: Boyacá: 3 ♂ 1 ♀ Pauna, Manote bajo, La Rochela [5°39’N 73°58’W] 26.iv.1979, I. de Arévalo ( ICN) . Meta: 1 ♀ Arama , San Juan de Arama [3°22’N; 73°52’W], 24.ix.1987 ( ICN) . Santander: 2 ♀ Cañaverales [6°5’N; 73°12’W] 4.xi.1978, I. de Arévalo ( ICN) . 2 ♂ Virolín, Margen río Guillermo [6°6’N; 73°21’W] 15.iii.1981 ( ICN) . Valle del Cauca: 1 ♂, Tuluá, Jardín Botánico “ Juan María Céspedes ” [4°1’N; 76°10’W] 24.viii.1996, D. Forero ( MPUJ _ ENT 0010582 ) ( MPUJ) .

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Collaria boliviana: (1) habitus (dorsal view). 2–4: male genitalia: (2) aedeagus; (3) left paramere; (4) right paramere (redrawn from Carvalho, 1990).