Apsilochorema Ulmer 1907

Saini, Malkiat S., Pandher, Manpreet S. & Parey, Sajad H., 2013, Two new species of genus Apsilochorema Ulmer (Trichoptera: Hydrobiosidae) from India, Zootaxa 3664 (2), pp. 226-232 : 227

Genus Apsilochorema Ulmer 1907

Apsilochorema Ulmer 1907: 206 ; type species by monotypy: Psilochorema indicum Ulmer 1905 . Achorema Mosely 1941: 372–373; type species by monotypy: Achorema banksi Mosely; synonymized by Ross 1951: 176; Ross 1956: 124; Neboiss 1986: 10.

Bachorema Mosely 1953 , in Mosely & Kimmins 1953: 493; type species by original designation: Bachorema obliqua Mosely ; synonymized by Ross 1956: 124; Neboiss 1986: 10.

Description: Ocelli present, eyes with short hairs, spurs 2,4,4 or 0,4,4. Wing venation differing in sexes, regular in Ƥ, irregular in 3. Forewings each with discoidal cell open or closed, forks 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 present, forks 2 and 5 sometimes sessile. Fork 4 in Ƥ with footstalk, in 3 sessile and joined to footstalk of fork 3. Posterior wings similar in both sexes, each with forks 1, 2, 3, and 5 or only 2, 3 and 5 present, all with footstalks. Pair of lateral filaments on abdominal segment V of 3. Short to moderate ventral process of 3 sternites 6 and 7 or 7 only; in Ƥ on sternites 5 and 6.

Key to subgenera of Genus Apsilochorema Ulmer

1. Undersides of male forewings each with corema or with vestigial parts of corema; forewings of male each with narrow discoidal cell, sometimes open; fork 2 with short stalk............................... Subgenus Apsilochorema Ulmer 1907

- Undersides of male forewings without coremata, forewings of male each with broad and closed discoidal cell, fork 2 sessile.......................................................................... Subgenus Archichorema Mey 1999