Kisaura morsei, Pandher, Manpreet Singh & Saini, Malkiat Singh, 2014

Pandher, Manpreet Singh & Saini, Malkiat Singh, 2014, New additions to the genus Kisaura Ross (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) from the Indian Himalaya, Zootaxa 3793 (5), pp. 538-544 : 543

Kisaura morsei sp. nov

( Figs.13–16 )

Material examined. Holotype ♂. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Shynachatti, 2,200 m, 27-ix-2008, Pandher and Parey, deposited in NPC.

Paratypes: Collection data same as those of holotype, 1♂.

Diagnosis. This species is similar to K. golitarensis sp. nov. in its possession of a bilobed tergum VIII, but segment IX is longitudinally shorter in lateral view and wider in dorsal view, the basal segment of each inferior appendage is trapezoidal (nearly straight-edged apicoventrally) in lateral view (rounded in lateral view in K. golitarensis ), and each lateral spiniform process is shorter and not trifid in K. morsei sp. nov.

Adult male: General color in alcohol dark brown, antennae pale yellow, head blackish and covered with black setae, wings hyaline. Body covered with inconspicuous, sparse, pale pubescence. Length of each antenna 5.0 mm; maxillary palps relatively short, each 1.5 mm long, segment III slightly longer than II, segment V about twice as long as IV; labial palps short, each 0.8 mm long. Length of each forewing 5.5 mm, its discoidal cell long, triangular; apical fork I absent in both wings.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 13–16 ): Tergite VIII with ω-shaped (omega-shaped) concavity on posterior 40%, bilobed apically; sternite VIII without posteroventral process. Segment IX subpentagonal in lateral view, dorsally convex, anterolaterally with small median prominence, anterodorsally attenuated, posterolaterally with shallow excision, posteroventrally with small process. Inferior appendages each 2-segmented; basal segment longer than apical segment, trapezoidal (apicoventrally straight) in lateral view, with two apicomesal lobes, superior lobe unadorned, inferior lobe with tuft of long setae; apical segment directed slightly upward, oval in lateral view, mesal surface with strong and long spine at base and curved row of spines visible in dorsal and ventral views. Tergum X membranous, extending to distal margins of basal segments of inferior appendages; lateral spiniform process arising on each side at base, directed cephalad then recurved caudad, reaching almost to distal margin of segment IX and divergent, with articulated spinelet at apex. Each preanal appendage almost equal to its corresponding lateral spiniform process, clavate, divergent in dorsal view. Phallus membranous, closely surrounded by tergum X, scarcely distinguishable from tergum X when phallus in retracted position.

Distribution. INDIA: Uttarakhand.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Dr. John C. Morse of U.S.A., an authority of Trichoptera systematics.

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 16. Kisaura spp., male genitalia. 9 – 12, K. holzenthali sp. nov.: 9, left lateral; 10, tergum VIII, dorsal; 11, dorsal; 12, right preanal appendage, dorsal. 13 – 16, K. morsei sp. nov.: 13, left lateral; 14, tergum VIII, dorsal; 15, dorsal; 16, right preanal appendage, dorsal.