Coelidia costaricensis, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, 2953, Zootaxa 2953, pp. 1-85 : 28

Coelidia costaricensis , sp. nov.

( Plate 3D, Figs. 156–162)

Length. Male 9.60 mm; female unknown.

External morphology. Large, slender species. General color dark brown to black, small yellow spots on veins of forewings, mesontoum, pronotum and crown; crown with large yellow spots on anterior margin, yellow longitudinal stripe medially from base to near apex; face yellow with large black spot below each eye ( Plate 3D). Head small, distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin angulate; crown broad, broader than width of eyes, produced distally about 1/3 entire medial length; pronotum large, median length about 1/3 longer than crown, surface bullated; mesonotum very large, nearly twice length of pronotum; forewings typical; clypeus long, broad, nearly rectangular-shaped, without median longitudinal carina; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow throughout, slightly inflated baso-medially, constricted medially.

Male genitalia. Pygofer narrow, caudodorsal margin with long narrow process, truncate apically, caudoventral process very long, narrow in basal ¾, apex inflated with small spine distally ( Fig. 156); segment X with membranous lobe ventrally ( Fig. 157); right subgenital plate long, narrow in basal 3/5, expanded in distal 2/5, profusely setose on outer lateral margin along distal 2/5 ( Fig. 158); style with long, very narrow apophysis ( Figs. 159, 160); aedeagus in lateral view long, tubular, sinuate, strongly recurved subdistally, apex sharply pointed, gonopore subapical before curved apex on dorsal margin ( Fig. 161), in dorsal view with 2 subbasal adjoining quadrate processes on dorsal margin ( Fig. 162); connective broadly Y-shaped, disk large, membranous, basal stem absent ( Fig. 162).

Material examined. Holotype male. COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Catatata del Toro, 7 km. N. Bajos del Toro, HGLT on lookout platform, A. E. Z. Short, 30-V-2006, AS-06-067 ( NMNH).

Etymology. The species is named for the country from which it was first found.

Remarks. This species is similar to C. angulata , sp. nov. in the configuration of the aedeagus and connective and can be easily separated by the slender style and apical, bulbous caudoventral process of the pygofer.