Panabachia falini sp. nov.

Figs 4 M, 6 L

Type material.

Holotype • ♂ (QCAZ-I -278840): “ ECUADOR: Pichincha, Nono, 15.1 km NW, 2000 m, 0°1'58"S, 78°39'19"W, 24–26 OCT 1999; Z. H. Falin, ECU 1 F 99 022, ex: flight intercept trap ” / “ SM 0351637 ” / “ QCAZ-I -278840 ”; deposited in QCAZI .

Other material.

1 ♀: “ ECUADOR: Pichincha, Bellavista Reserve, Ridge Trail, 12 km S Nanegalito, 2250 m, 0°0'54"N, 78°40'56"W, 28 OCT 1999; R. Anderson, ECU 1 A 99 211 F, ex. Cloud forest litter ” (SM 0362958 / QCAZ-I -278841) .

Diagnosis.

Body dark orange, very finely setose, setae recumbent, impunctate; head subquadrate, posterior corners rounded, vertex slightly swollen above deeply impressed vertexal foveae; frons with oblique depressions mediad vertexal foveae; antennal bases weakly elevated in front of fine, oblique striae, striae nearly meeting across middle; eyes large, protuberant, diameter ~ 2 × post-ocular genal length; antennae short, antennomere I slightly curved, ~ 2 × as long as wide, II subquadrate, ~ 2 / 3 length of I, III subconical, slightly longer than wide, IV – VII weakly subquadrate, VIII transverse, shorter, IX – XI forming loose club, XI ~ 2 × as long as X; male pronotum (Fig. 4 M) wider than long, elevated across entire anterior margin, sides angulate at widest point, at sides of anterior elevation; deep triangular impression present behind middle of anterior elevation, with short, dense, transverse cluster of setae projecting backwards from anterior margin just laterad midline, a few longer setae projecting anterad from posterior edge of impression; depression shallowly continued in anterolateral, glabrous depressions; extreme sides of pronotal disk with irregularly ovoid, very shallow, glabrous depressions, their outer / lower edges forming lateral pronotal margin; each elytron with four basal fovea, the lateral pair in a common depression, barely distinguishable; no subhumeral fovea or stria; flight wings present; prosternum very short, with anterior prosternal foveae at anterior corner of hypomeron; legs simple, mesotrochanter slightly dentate at middle of posterior edge; male metaventrite setose posteriorly between metacoxae; male last abdominal ventrite densely setose along distal margin, depressed on either side of a thin, prominent median denticle; terminal male tergite with apical margin widened, flattened, and densely setose. Aedeagus (Fig. 6 L) slender, base slightly bulbous, with small, oval basal foramen; parameres free for basal 1 / 4, then fused with median lobe just beyond foramen; median lobe slightly constricted beyond paramere fusion, dorsally arched, with long median part a flattened cylinder, a shorter, slightly widening dorsal process over it, just shorter, and lateral ‘ wings’ with long, curved, articulated rods recurving toward middle at apices. TL 1.6–1.67 mm, EW 0.33–0.36 mm.

Distribution.

This species is known from northeastern montane forest in the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.

Etymology.

We name this species to acknowledge many years of collaboration and assistance, on this project and numerous others, from Dr. Zachary Falin, collector of the type of this species.