Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969 status restablished

Adelopsis linaresi Szymczakowski, 1969: 407 [and Figs. 1–10].

Adelopsis brunneus linaresi; Szymczakowski, 1975: 15 [and Fig. 1] (lowered to subspecies status).

Adelopsis brunnea linaresi; Gnaspini, 1996: 539 (spelling corrected to feminine gender).

Holotype male in MUCV, not examined.

Length: 2.4 mm (holotype male) and 2.4–2.5 mm (2 female paratypes) (original description).

Type locality: Cueva del Guacharo, Gran Derrumbe, 1065 m, Caripe, [Monagas State], Venezuela. Distribution. Venezuela: Monagas State: known only from type locality (original description; Szymczakowski, 1975).

Taxonomic Remarks.

1) As proposed in Gnaspini (1996: 539) and Peck et al. (1998: 62), all subspecies of A. brunnea Jeannel 1936 are here raised to species status. The combination of the variation observed on aedeagus, genital segment, eyes, antenna, male mesotibia, and spermatheca allow taxon recognition (see discussion under each of these taxa).

Based on the original illustration, the aedeagus of this subspecies (Fig. 8 in Szymczakowski, 1969) differs from that of other species in group ascutellaris, especially by having a ‘high’ apical portion of the right lobe, with a sinuate apical margin; and the profemur seems unique (Fig. 9 in Szymczakowski, 1969). Therefore, we here reassign the status of species for this taxon.

2) This species is tentatively assigned to subgroup, since the genital segment (which is here considered important for subgroup assignment) is unknown.