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49. QUICHlRAy new genus 



Figure 221 



Type-species: Quichira tegminis, new species. 



Length 10.3 mm. 



Head moderately produced and tnmcate apically in dorsal aspect, 

 median length of crown less than half interocular width and more than 

 one-third transocular width, anterior margin subangulate near middle 

 at transition from crown to face, ocelli located before a line between 

 anterior eye angles, each slightly closer to median line than to adjacent 

 eye angle, surface of crown concave except for an indistinct M -shaped 

 elevation bordering posterior margin, pubescence indistinct; antennal 

 ledges with a longitudinal fovea, carinate in dorsal aspect, anterior 

 margins oblique; clypeus flattened medially, strongly convex laterally, 

 texture of dorsomedian area coarsely rugose; other head characters as 

 in Phera. 



Thorax with lateral pronotal margins parallel, disc rugose and 

 punctate; proepimeron with lower marginal area not distinctly de- 

 pressed, its length much less than width; posterior portion of scutellum 

 with transverse striations; otherwise as in Phera (female unknown). 

 Hindwing as in Phera but with vein R24.3 entire. Anterior tibiae not 

 dilated. Hindlegs with femoral setal formula 2:1:0; first tarsomere with 

 length less than combined length of second and third. 



Male genitalia: Pygofer not strongly produced, its posterior margin 

 rounded, disc with numerous evenly dispersed microsetae, with a 

 posteroventral process which extends anteroventrally. Plates separate 

 throughout their length, not extending as far posteriorly as pygofer 

 apex, each triangular, with numerous evenly dispersed microsetae and 

 small macrosetae. Style extending farther posteriorly than apex of 

 connective, with distinct preapical lobe, apex rounded. Connective 

 Y-shaped with arms widely divergent, stem keeled. Aedeagus with 

 preatrium long, shaft short and with paired basal processes. Paraphyses 

 absent. 



Female unknown. 



Quichira is known only from the type-species, which is from Panama. 

 It is related to Oncometopia, from which it can be distinguished by the, 

 non-inflated appearance of the aedeagus, the retrorse pygofer process, 

 and externally by the form of the clypeus, which is broadly flattened. 



Quichira tegminis, new species 



Figure 221 



External characters as in generic description. Male genitalia with 

 pygofer process slender and acute at apex; acdeagal processes curved 



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