Calodia tridenta sp. nov.

Figs. 1 L, 4 L, 7 L, 23 A–H.

Male. Head, pronotum and mesonotum, black. Eyes and ocelli black. Face yellow with brown frontal sutures. Forewing deep piceous throughout with narrow hyaline band along costal margin. Metasternites black. Hind femur with apices and tarsi dark brown, spines on hind tarsi yellow, claws black (Figs.1 L, 4 L, 7 L).

Male genitalia. Pygofer with short caudoventral process (Fig. 23 H). Subgenital plate long, slightly broader medially and slightly narrowed apically, with a few short, fine setae laterally (Fig. 23 E). Style short, broad in basal ½, apophysis short (Fig. 23 F). Connective as long as wide at base (Fig. 23 G). Aedeagus with shaft in lateral view angled dorsad near apex, with two subapical processes, distal process glabrous, proximal process short, 0.8x as long as distal process, trifurcate apically, bases of processes separated by a distance nearly half as long as length of distal process, gonopore arising distad of proximal process (Figs. 23 A–D).

Measurements. Male 6.7 mm long, 1.8 mm wide across eyes and 2.1 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Kerala: Nelliampathy, 08 0 51’10.04” N, 77 0 02’04.74” E, 158m, 11.v.2011, at Mercury vapour lamp, N. M. Meshram Coll. (NPC).

Etymology. The name tridenta is descriptive for the 3 branched proximal process of the aedeagus.

Remarks. Calodia tridenta sp. nov. is similar to C. subcrista and can be easily distinguished by the trifurcate proximal process (Figs. 23 A–D) of the aedeagus which is bifurcate (Figs. 22 A–D) in C. subcrista .