Oxysarcodexia corolla Dodge, 1965

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Oxysarcodexia corolla Dodge, 1965

( Figs 85–89 )

Oxysarcodexia corolla Dodge, 1965: 508 ; Jamaica, Saint Andrews , Second Breakfast Spring. Holotype male (examined from photographs) and female allotype in WSU.

Diagnosis. [Based on the original description ( Dodge 1965), the redescription by Lopes (1978), and on photographs provided by Dr. Richard S. Zack (WSU).] Male. Length 8.5 mm. Postocular plate yellowish gray. Ocellar bristles weak. Thorax gray and abdomen with silvery pollinosity. Three well-differentiated post-sutural dorsocentral bristles, an additional small bristle can be present among them. Apical scutellar bristles present, although small or weak. Legs blackish. Abdomen grayish with pale golden pollinosity laterally, T4 with long marginal setosity, but none are particularly strongly developed. ST5 with deep cleft. Cercus brownish red with black apex and a conspicuous preapical “tooth”; cerci diverging apically. Pregonite stouter and more curved than postgonite; with darker apex. Postgonite slender and nearly straight; unicolorous. Distiphallus straight with compressed apex and an anterior elongation pointed inward, and bearing a preapical flap around dorsal and lateral sides. Vesica is black, broad, with an asymmetrical finger-shaped process on the left side.

Remarks. See under O. augusta . The female of O. corolla has an undivided T7 ( Tibana & Mello 1985).

Distribution. NEOTROPICAL. Jamaica.

Biology. Unknown.

Type material examined. No specimens were examined directly, but photographs of the holotype were provided by courtesy of Dr. Richard S. Zack ( WSU) .

Figures

FIGURES 79–89. Oxysarcodexia spp., males. 79–81. Oxysarcodexia conclausa (Walker) (USA, Texas, Hidalgo County, NHMD). 79. Habitus, lateral view. 80. Terminalia, lateral view. 81. Terminalia, posterior view. 82–84. Oxysarcodexia confusa Lopes (Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Petrópolis, NHMD). 82. Habitus, lateral view. 83. Terminalia, lateral view. 84. Terminalia, posterior view. 85–89. Oxysarcodexia corolla Dodge, holotype (Jamaica, Saint Andrews, Second Breakfast Spring, WSU). 85. Habitus, lateral view. 86. Terminalia (without cerci), lateral view. 87. Cerci and surstyli, lateral view. 88. Terminalia (without cerci), posterior view. 89. Cerci, posterior view. Figs 85–89 by R.S. Zack (WSU).