Nyctiophylax Brauer, 1865:419

Pandher, Manpreet Singh, 2019, A new species to the genus Nyctiophylax Brauer (1865) (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from India, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 119 (3) : -

Genus Nyctiophylax Brauer, 1865:419

Type species- Nyctiophylax sinensis Brauer, 1865: 419 Nyctiophylax malickyii sp. nov. ( Figs. 1-8 )

Description

Adult ♂, overall body color in alcohol golden yellowish; head and antennae yellowish, pronotum brown, meso and metanotum slightly dark brown. Length from tip of head to apices of the folded forewings about 7.75 mm. length of each forewing 6 mm.

Male genitalia ( Figures 1-8 )

Dorsal view is tergum IX membranous, almost transparent, and rounded distally. Sternum IX quadrate in lateral view, posterolateral margin vertical and sinuous, and posterior margin with deep excision in ventral view. Tergum X semisclerotized, setose, deeply divided apicomesally. Preanal appendages, each almost equal to tergum X, each broad quadrate lobe like,with paired meso ventral and dorsal process; each meso ventral process curved caudoventrad, broad at the base, each gradually reduce to a narrow pointed apex in lateral view; in ventral view apices extend mesad beneath phallus; each dorsal process of preanal appendage deeply inserted under tergum IX smaller than the meso ventral process. Inferior appendages, each, with acute posterior baso ventral process, half as long as main body, main body of appendage slender, setose and acute apically. Phallus with sclerotized phallobase, phallobase about half as long as phallicata, with pair of short blunt lobes, each paramere longer than phallus, arising at the anterior end of phallobase, curved dorsad, phallicata membranous dorsally, without any spines.

Material examined

Holotype, ♂, India: Himachal Pradesh, Panchpulla , 3 2°31’41.1”N, 75°59’25.2”E, 2,100 m, 28-ix-2017,

Figures

Figures 1-4. Male genitalia of Nyctiophylax malickyii sp.nov. 1. Lateral view, 2. Dorsal view, 3. Ventral view, 4. Caudo- Ventral View. (BVPIA- Basoventral process of Preanal appendage, DPPA-Dorsal process of preanal appendage, IA- Inferior Appendage, MVPPA- Meso ventral Process of Preanal appendage, PA- Preanal appendage, St IX- Sternite IX, Tg IX- Tergite IX, Tg X- Tergite X).

Figures 5-8. Male genitalia of Nyctiophylax malickyi sp. nov. 5. Phallus, ventral view, 6. Phallus dorsal view, 7. Phallus, Lateral view, 8. Baso ventral process of Inferior appendage, ventral view. (LOB- Lobes, PAR- Paramere, PB- Phallobase, PH-phallus).