dcsimg

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Male. Length of forewing 1.5–2.0 mm (n=24). Head unmodified, with 3 ocelli; antennae unmodified. Dorsum of head brown with light yellow setae; thorax brown with light yellow setae dorsally, brown ventrally; leg segments with brown setae. Forewings covered with fine yellow setae with dark brown setae at edges and apex. Genitalia. Abdominal sternum VII with digitate mesoventral process with small basal ridge. Sternum VIII in ventral view with posterior margin concave. Segment IX anterolateral margin produced mesally, posterolateral margin irregular; in dorsal view anterior margin concave, posterior margin concave. Tergum × with dorsal sclerite slender, elongate; ventral sclerite semielliptic; membranous apex suborbicular. Subgenital plate with dorsal arm digitate, apex truncate; ventral arm digitate, laterally obscured from view by inferior appendage, in ventral view triangular. Inferior appendage dorsomesally “humped,” apex rounded, bearing single dorsal spine; in ventral view with mitten-like “thumb” on inner margin (Fig. 43D). Phallus apex bearing U-shaped internal apodeme, pair of apical membranous lobes, and 2 pairs of elongate sclerites: 1st pair lateral, elongate, apically curled, 2nd pair acute, apicodorsal sclerites extending anteriad.
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Robin E. Thomson, Ralph W. Holzenthal
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Thomson R, Holzenthal R (2015) A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Leucotrichia Mosely, 1934 (Hydroptilidae, Leucotrichiinae) ZooKeys (499): 1–100
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Robin E. Thomson
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Ralph W. Holzenthal
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