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occasionally fine but sharp throughout, more often faint and 
irregular to almost absent; basal area usually distinct; median 
longitudinal carinae sometimes faintly demarking a hexagonal 
areola; cristae broadly low-cuneate to short subligulate. First gastric 
tergite: with a strong, bluntly triangular lateral expansion at base of 
petiole (weak only in dwarf males); postpetiole in female 1.4- 1.7 as 
wide apically as long from spiracle to apex, in male 0.8- 1.4 as wide; 
ventro-lateral carina strong on petiole, variably developed on post- 
petiole; dorso-lateral carina weak, most distinct toward apex of 
petiole and on base of postpetiole; dorsal carinae in female visible 
but not sharp for some distance on petiole and on about basal half 
of postpetiole, where they define a weak median elevation, absent in 
male. Second gastric tergite in female smooth and shining to a little 
dull, with vague to fine but strong micro-reticulation and sparse, 
medium sized, shallow punctures that emit short, well separated 
setae and in male similar but with abundant, well separated, rather 
small and superficial punctures that emit long, considerably over- 
lapping setae. Ovipositor 0.60-0.70 as long as fore wing; straight or 
slightly upcurved; moderately stout, somewhat compressed; nodus 
low but distinct and without a notch; tip 0. 1 3-0. 1 8 as high at nodus 
as long from nodus to apex; ventral valve on tip with fine, well 
spaced, inclivously oblique ridges. 
Generic Name. From the Greek nouns aelius, “sun” and 
poles , “drinker”. 
1. Aeliopotes paitensis (Cockerell) 
(Figs. 17, 19-22) 
Amblyteles paitensis Cockerell, 1927. Entomologist 60: 158. Type ft: Peru, Paita 
(Washington). 
Trachysphyrus paitensis Townes, 1966. Mem. Amer. Ent. Inst. 8: 72. 
Aeliopotes paitensis was redescribed (Porter 1967: 272-75) from 3 
females and 6 males (including the holotype) collected throughout 
most of the Peruvian Coastal Desert between Paita near the Ecua- 
dorian border on the north to Arequipa in the far south. More recent 
fieldwork has added 2 females and 19 males from much of the same 
region. This material permits some modification of my original 
diagnosis. 
