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Figures 8-9. — Aedeagus: 8, Pyractonema obscura; 9, Pyractonema rhododera. {a, lateral 

 view; b, dorsal view; and c, ventral view.) 



Pyractonema rhododera Solier 



Figure 9 



Pyractonema rhododera Solier, in Gay, Hist. Fis. Pol. Chile, vol. 4, Zool., 

 p. 449, 1849. 



Material: 14 males and 1 female. 



General: A small, narrow, nonluminous lampyrid with a relatively 

 small coral-red pronotum. 



Dimensions: Males 7.3 to 11.9 mm. long by 2.0 to 3.5 mm. broad; 

 average 9.26 by 2.8 mm. Female 6.8 mm. long by 2.6 mm. broad. 



Pronotum small, 0.8 as long as broad. Occasionally widest at basal 

 third or half. Posterolateral angles variable in acuteness and posi- 

 tion relative to the lateral margins. Laterally somewhat reflexed. 

 Disc opaque coral-red, with no median vitta, but usually a sulcus 

 in basal half. A narrow black border around the red area, sometimes 

 brownish just forward of eyes. 



