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Johnson, sweeping. Paratype: 1 female, same data as holotype. Both 
specimens deposited in USNM. 
Notes: This species belongs to the C. westwoodi group. Besides 
genitalic differences, this species can be separated from related 
species by the lack of scale-like setae on the flagellar segments, lack of 
a hook on the frons and the presence of an inner, distally furcate, 
transverse plate on the hypandrium. No other North American 
species has this combination of characters. 
Coniopteryx dorsicornis new species 
Coniopteryx simplicior Meinander (in part), 1972:261. Type: 
Holotype male; Florida; PSU. 
Head: Brown. Frons and palpi normal. Antennae (Fig. 2F) 
yellowish brown, 29-30 segmented (left antenna with 29 segments 
with first flagellar segment partially subdivided, right antenna with 
30 segments). Scale-like hairs in several whorls on apices of flagellar 
segments. Basal flagellar segments rounded, about as long as broad. 
Ordinary hairs on flagellar segments in two whorls, about as long as 
width of segment. Each segment with a slightly curved seta, slightly 
longer than width of segment. 
Thorax: Brown with dark brown shoulder spots. Membrane of 
wing yellowish-brown. Length of fore wing 3.0 mm, hind wing 2.6 
mm. 
Male genitalia (Fig. 2A-E): Hypandrium in lateral view higher 
than broad, skewed dorso-caudally. Apodeme along anterior margin 
ventrally interrupted, dorsally continued along dorso-lateral margin 
of hypandrium for a short distance. Processus terminales acute, 
median apical incision V-shaped. Processus laterales not prominent. 
Gonarcus well developed. Hypandrium with a large inner distally 
bifurcate plate attached to median apical incision. Stylus forked, 
outer branch bent forewards. Processus ventrales of parameres 
connected. Processus apicalis long, diverging dorsally, sub-equal to a 
long ventral process. Penis consisting of two rods, apparently fused 
caudally. 
Holotype male: Florida: Highlands Co., Archbold Biological 
Station, III-30-IV-5-1967, S. W. Frost. Holotype deposited in 
museum of Pennsylvania State University. 
Notes: This species belong to the C. westwoodi group. This 
specimen was one of a lot identified as C. simplicior Meinander by 
