Noabennarella costaricensis spec. nov.

Type material: Holotype ♂: Costa Rica: Piedras Blancas National Park, Esquinas Rainforest Lodge [8°41’54’’N, 83°12’16’’W, 130 m a.s.l.], May 21, 2006, light trap in primary rain forest, Gernot Kunz leg., in coll. of the Institute for Faunistics and Animal Ecology, Graz. Paratype: 1 ♂, same location as holotype, May 24, 2006, in coll. G. Kunz.

Description

Body length: 3.2 mm, 5.9–6.0 mm incl. wings.

Coloration: Head and thorax dorsally straw­coloured, ventrally lighter. Abdomen dorsally dark brownish. Body partially covered with wax. Lateral keels of frons inside and outside with blackish spot (Figs 9, 10). A small, comma­shaped blackish spot surrounds the lateral ocellus and progresses apically. Legs straw­coloured. Wings opaque, veins straw­coloured, cells creamy white with fuscous markings in a reticulate pattern. With a large blackish spot at apex of Sc and additional dark spots in centres of apical cells and at apices of veins (Fig. 1).

Morphology of head, thorax, abdomen as described for genus (see Figs 9, 10, 11–14, 23, 24, 26).

Shaft of aedeagus with five movable, more or less straight spines: one ventromedian spine directed to left, and four apical spines: one very long on right side, one small and broader on left side, and two long and slender spines ventrally (Figs 16, 17). Genital styles spoonshaped, apical part with smaller truncate lobe medially and broader lateral lobe laterally, latter produced into a roundish tip (Fig. 18).