Soyedina amicalola Verdone & Kondratieff, 2017

Grubbs, Scott A. & Baumann, Richard W., 2023, The Nemourinae (Insecta, Nemouridae) of the eastern Nearctic, Zootaxa 5306 (1), pp. 1-53 : 33-34

15. Soyedina amicalola Verdone & Kondratieff, 2017

Georgia Forestfly

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( Figs. 105–108 )

Soyedina amicalola Verdone & Kondratieff 2017:31 . Holotype male (United States National Museum), Little Amicalola Creek, Amicalola Falls State Park, Dawson Co., Georgia, USA

Soyedina amicalola Grubbs & Baumann, 2019:238

Distribution. USA: GA ( DeWalt et al. 2022)

Male. Macropterous. Body length 6.4–6.6 mm, forewing length 7.8–7.9 mm (n = 3, in Verdone et al. 2017). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified. Paraprocts with two lobes, inner lobes lightly sclerotized and inconspicuous; outer lobes sclerotized, large and robust for genus, in basal half bulbous, slightly tapered to a prominent anteriorly-directed spur ( Fig. 108 ). Epiproct asymmetric, typical for genus ( Fig. 105 ); ventral sclerites partially recurved over abdomen, distinctly asymmetric, apically narrowly triangular ( Fig. 105 ); dorsal sclerites distinctly asymmetric, appearing scaly at higher magnifications ( Figs. 105, 107 ); open apically, inner member heavily sclerotized, terminates apically as a straight-sided blunt process, apically triangular in shape and open caudally ( Figs. 105‒107 ).

Female. Unknown.

Larva. Unknown.

Comments. This species is presently known only from two locations in the southern Blue Ridge Province in north Georgia ( Verdone et al. 2017, Grubbs & Baumann 2019).

Figures

FIGURES 105‒108. Soyedina amicalola. 105, USA, Georgia, Frogtown Creek. epiproct, ventral view; 106, USA, Georgia, Frogtown Creek, epiproct, lateral view; 107, USA, Georgia, Frogtown Creek, epiproct, caudal view; 108, USA, Georgia, Frogtown Creek, outer paraproct lobe. ds = dorsal sclerite, vs = ventral sclerite, im = inner member, opl = outer paraproct lobe.