dcsimg

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Male. Length of forewing 2.3–2.9 mm (n=8). Head unmodified, with 3 ocelli; antennae unmodified. Dorsum of head dark brown with bright yellow setae; thorax dark brown with bright yellow setae dorsally, brown ventrally; leg segments with dark brown setae. Forewings covered with fine bright yellow setae, apical 1/2 with brown setae. Genitalia. Abdominal sternum VII with small, digitate mesoventral process. Sternum VIII in ventral view with posterior margin concave. Segment IX anterolateral margin slightly produced mesally, posterolateral margin with shallow mesal depression; in dorsal view anterior margin concave, posterior margin concave. Tergum × with dorsal sclerite simple; ventral sclerite with rounded projection on posterior margin; membranous apex rounded. Subgenital plate with dorsal arm not apparent; ventral arm digitate with small apical projection, in ventral view with rounded apical emargination. Inferior appendage broadest basally, apex truncate, bearing single dorsal spine; in ventral view digitate, with basal projection on outer margin. Phallus apex bearing pair of elongate dorsal sclerites (U-shaped and with slightly enlarged dorsal apex in lateral view) and pair of small, dark, subapicodorsal spines.
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Robin E. Thomson, Ralph W. Holzenthal
bibliographic citation
Thomson R, Holzenthal R (2015) A revision of the Neotropical caddisfly genus Leucotrichia Mosely, 1934 (Hydroptilidae, Leucotrichiinae) ZooKeys (499): 1–100
author
Robin E. Thomson
author
Ralph W. Holzenthal
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