ceropalinae: tribe minageniini 231 



4. Minagenia clypeata (Banks) 



Plates 1, figure 13; and 3, figure 37 



Ageniella clypeata Banks, 1914, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 22, p. 306, cT. 

 Type: cf, Chain Bridge, Va. (Cambridge). 



Minagenia shappirioi Dreisbach, 1953, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 49, p. 839, cf 

 (new synonymy). Type: cf, Osceola County, Mich. (Cambridge). 



Male: Forewing 6.0 to 7.2 mm. long; sternites 2 to 5 with some 

 long oblique or sometimes suberect hairs that are about 2.5 as long 

 as the ordinary clothing hairs, the longer of these hairs more nearly- 

 erect and bent at the apex; subgenital plate broadly oblanceolate with 

 a blunt point, but the sides curved upward so that it appears rather 

 narrowly lanceolate; squama long spatulate, with a fringe of dense, 

 long, oblique bristles on both margins. 



Black. Clypeus partly or entirely, labrum, mandible except at the 

 base and apex, palpi except basally, ridge on underside of scape 

 underside of fore and middle coxae, tibial spurs, and pronotal collar 



Figure 135. — Localities for Minagenia clypeata. 



stramineous; fore legs dark brown basally, grading to pale brown on 

 the tarsi, the apical tarsal segment darker; tegula and sometimes 

 lateral tinges on abdomen dusky rufous; wings subhyaline, faintly 

 infuscate apically. 



Female; The presumed female of this species has the forewing 

 5.7 to 7.5 mm. long; sensillae beginning as a few scattered ones on the 

 apical 0.5 of the second flagellar segment, more closely spaced on the 

 third and following segments; and subgenital plate ventrally with a 

 longitudinal band of suberect stout hairs of rather irregular length 

 and diameter but stouter and shorter than some scattered long hairs. 



Black. Tibial spurs and front of front tibia brown; wings weakly 

 infuscate, the forewing with a darker subapical area starting at the 

 level of the stigma, its apical edge also a little darker than the rest. 



