Records and descriptions of Neotropicalcrane-flies (Tipulidae, Diptera). IC P Alexander
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 27:132-154 (1919) http://biostor.org/reference/53092
Keywords: Gonomyia; Limnophila; Limnophilella; Mongoma; Neomongoma; Penthoptera;
Peripheroptera; Tanypremna; Tipulidae; Trentepohlia

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eight black, the lateral margins".",
reddish, thor. of segment
ir""af,sternites similar, segment.sev:n"tniblack. Male hypopygium with
the ninth ter_gite extensive, the caudal
margin withuotch, the lateralangles produced caudad into longstraigilt "-a1.p-U_"l.ped
are heav'y
their tips, the inner face.,minutely"r-r-tt "t"or*r""a-'*a"nJ.pr.rolor";
along the maiginof the notch of. the tergite these "nJ
spinest.., numerous and. much more
slender; sides of the tergite with"".
numerous
fong fr"i*.
Ninth pieutite small,complete; outerpreuralappendage
a semichitiniz-edcurved.hook thatis swoten
basally, blackened at the acute tip;
inner pleural appendage irregularlycom_pressed into a flattened
blade whose cephalic margin is produced
into tw9
short blackened points with a narrow
r*rrd.dnJtcU between them, Eighthsternite on the caudal margin witha large flattened concave appendage
thatis almost bifid medially by a deep notch,
the surfa6e with a dense white pubesce nc e, on t he m a r g i n a l o n g s p in e .
Habitat: Panama(Darien).

Holotype; J, Rio. Chico, Department of panama,
near the mouthof the Rio Porcona,August 4, rlrg (AxelOlsson).
T. spi,nicaud,abelongs to the group of,T. tongitorsis Macq. andisto be confusedonly with t appendens(Endr)of Ecuador and I.
tabid'aEnd' of Peru' The ratter species
has the antenn* bi"otorous,
the legs brownjsh-yellowand the eighth
tergi-teblack. T. afpend,ens
has the male antenna nearly as longth. body (length g mm.;",antenna8.5 mm.), the legs brownish_yellow
and the wing_patternand
venation tlistinct. The similar T. aymara
Alex. (Bolivi"t ;;;;:
parishi Alex. (Brazil)
readily distinguished,by the male hypo__arepygia. T. IongitarsisMacq.
has a large brown mark near the middleof the wing-disk on vein Ca.
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Wing of Geranomyia nigripleura newspecies.
Wing of peripheroptera sabandina newspecies.
Wing of Dicranomyia jorgenseni newspecies.
wing of Rhomphidia atbitarsis
fuscipes new subspecies.
Wing of Rhamphiitia atbitarsis'fumipennis
new subspecies.
Wing of Limnophiia (Limnophilellaj z,icto,new species.
Wing of Eriocera orgenti.na new species.
Wing of Eriocera colwnbiana newspecies.
Wing of Penthoptera sonct@_rnart@,r"w"peci"s.
Wing of Gonomgia (Gonomyilla) subcostotonewspecies.

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Wing of Gonomgia (Lei6oneura) glailiotor new specics.
Wing of GnoQhomgidolssoni l.ew.species.
Wing of G*ophomgio lachrgmosanew species.
Wing of Gnophomyio traticincta.r.ewspecies.
Wing of Trentepohlia (Paramongono) sororcutranew species.
Wing of Tangpretnno fuscitarsk aew species.
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Cn:cubitus.
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