Elachyleon punctipennis Esben-Petersen, 1927

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4. Elachyleon punctipennis Esben-Petersen

Elachyleon punctipennis Esben-Petersen 1927: 348 . Holotype, St. Augustine , Trinidad, 20. V.1925 (BMNH).

= Elachyleon punctipennis pulchellus Esben-Petersen 1933: 113 , figure 4 (wings). Syntype female, Las Mercedes, Costa Rica, 27.IV.1922, Nevermann (Hamburg, destroyed).

Further description. Markl 1954: 199, figure 27 (venation); Stange 1963: 815, figure 1, 5, 14, 15 (front view of head; fore wing; male genitalia).

Known distribution. Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; Mexico; Surinam; Trinidad.

Diagnosis. Adult: Pretarsal claws capable of closing against setal brush on distal tarsomere with tips of setae bent at nearly 90 degree angle; distal tarsomere of fore leg shorter than basal four tarsomeres together; fore wing less than 25 mm. long; fore wing radial sector arises well before cubital fork; antenna with about 36 flagellomeres with the basal 25 flagellomeres longer than wide; legs extremely long and pale brown with numerous black spots. Male abdomen shorter than wings; male parameres flat plates with cobblestone pattern.; Female posterior gonapophysis less than 1.5 times longer than wide, strongly narrowed apically. Coloration: Pronotum mostly pale yellow with long erect setae; fore wing with many dark brown marks; hind wing with prominent hypostigmal dark brown spot; wing venation mostly pale brown with dark brown streaks at many of the cross veins and a prominent dark spot where the posterior fork of CuA approaches the hind margin of the fore wing. Larva: unknown.