Mortoniella (Mortoniella) quinuas Harper and Turcotte, 1985

Blahnik, Roger J. & Holzenthal, Ralph W., 2017, Revision of the northern South American species of Mortoniella Ulmer 1906 (Trichoptera: Glossosomatidae: Protoptilinae) *, Insecta Mundi 2017 (602), pp. 1-251 : 43-44

Mortoniella (Mortoniella) quinuas Harper and Turcotte, 1985

Mortoniella quinuas Harper and Turcotte 1985: 137 ; Sykora 1999: 384 [reillustration, member of flinti subgroup]; Blahnik and Holzenthal 2008: 70 [member of bilineata group].

Unfortunately, the type of the species could not be located. Diagnostic differences between this species and M. gilli , n. sp., which appears to be closely related, are discussed under that species and in the discussion of the quinuas subgroup.

Distribution — Ecuador.

— wygodzinskii subgroup

Included species: Mortoniella wygodzinskii ( Schmid, 1958) .

This species subgroup, with a single contained species, was recognized by Sykora (1999) and is retained here because of its unusual morphology and lack of characters that would clearly place it in one of the other species groups. Mortoniella wygodzinskii is a uniform brownish in color, without wing bars. The species has a very distinct ventromesal process of tergum X, as in species of the apiculata, bilineata, enchrysa, foersteri, and iridescens subgroups. The other modifications of tergum X, with the apicolateral angles distinctly sclerotized and enrolled ventrally to form an apical cap, but with a distinct mesal notch, resembles species in the enchrysa, foersteri, and iridescens subgroups. The posterior margin of segment IX is slightly produced, but this is neither distinctly angular nor broadly rounded, as in members of the other species groups mentioned above.