Bryopharsos clavigum Quate, 1996

Figs 1, 12

Bryopharsos clavigum Quate, 1996: 41 . Type locality: Costa Rica, Heredia, Estación Biológica La Selva (INBio).

Diagnosis

Male

Eye bridge with four facet rows (Fig. 12A); wing 2.5 times as long as wide; ejaculatory apodeme subcircular in ventral view (Fig. 12B); gonocoxal apodeme with spine (Fig. 12B); surstyli with four tenacula (Fig. 12C). This species is morphologically similar to B. amazonensis and B. claviformosum but they can be differentiated by the number of tenacula present in the surstyli (four in B. clavigum, five in B. amazonensis and B. claviformosum).

Female

Unknown.

Material examined

COSTA RICA – Heredia • 4 ♂♂; Puerto Viejo de Sarapaqui, Estación Biológica La Selva; 0.11862° N, 78.95802° E; alt. 50–100 m; 15 Dec. 1993; leg.; LACM, LACM-ENT-279401, LACM-ENT-279402, LACM-ENT-279403, INBIO CRI001470316 .

ECUADOR – Pichincha • 1 ♂; Pedro Vicente Maldonado, near San Pancracio, roadway to Pachijal, 0.11862° N, 78.95805° E; alt. 770 m; 25–28 Jan. 2020; Isabel Kilian leg.; MECN, ZFMK-TIS-2628309 .

Distribution

Costa Rica (Quate 1996; Bravo & Araújo 2019) and Ecuador (this publication, new record) (Fig. 1).

DNA barcodes

DNA barcoding of the examined material was unsuccessful.