Tinamotaecola Carriker 1944

Tinamotaecola Carriker 1944: 86, figs 1d, e. Type species: T. andinae Carriker, 1944 (by original designation). Tinamotaecola; Hellenthal et al. 2002: 136.

Diagnosis. A genus belonging to the “ Degeeriella -complex” of Clay (1958), identifiable by the following adult features:

Head: longer than wide (Figs 2, 3), forehead rounded and circumfasciate with conspicuous marginal carina uninterrupted in the middle, and with the edge of the ventral preantennal suture thickened on each side, becoming a continuation of the ventral carina and fused distally with the complete marginal carina; dorsal preantennal suture (dprs) developed, reaching the bases of the very long anterior dorsal setae (ads); a pair of dorsal submarginal setae (dsms) displaced backwards and included within the dorsal preantennal suture; prenodal setae (pns) medium long; antennae similar in both sexes; ocular seta (os) very long and placed dorsally; preocular seta (pos) medium long and placed sub-laterally; marginal temporal setae (ts) 2, 4 and 5 very short, 1 and 3 very long.

Thorax: as in Fig. 1. Pronotum with single, long, lateroposterior postspiracular seta. Metanotum without anterior setae, but with 9–13 marginal posterior setae, including one small spiniform seta and one long trichoid seta each side. A median elongate and pigmented sclerite (mes) extending from mid-metanotum to abdominal segment II (Fig. 4). Meso and metasternal plates with 1–2 setae.

Abdomen: as in Fig. 1. Terga without anterior setae except for an antero-medial pair on tergite II; tergites II–VIII divided at midline; IX–XI fused and with a median anterior notch. A very long postspiracular seta on each side of terga III–VIII. Without well-defined sternal plates. Male genitalia as in Figs 14–16: basal plate longer than wide and ellipsoidal, parameres long and sharply tapered, mesosomal complex with characteristic shape, genital sac elongated with small tubercles (Fig. 17), penis slender and unpigmented. Female subgenital plate roughly rounded, with two irregular rows of setae: one formed by medium fine marginal setae, another of short spiniform submarginal setae (Fig. 18).

Etymology. Not specified by Carriker (1944), but Tinamotaecola is formed by the prefix Tinamotae - (= of or from Tinamotis) and the Latin suffix - cola (= to inhabit).

Remark. Hellenthal et al. (2002) divided the four species of this genus into two well defined species-groups, a criterion followed here. The species groups are characterized as follows: