Cheumatopsyche chirapali Olah & Johanson 2008, new species
Creators: name: Oláh, János
name: Johanson, Kjell Arne
name: Barnard, Peter C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Hydropsychidae
Cheumatopsyche
Cheumatopsyche chirapali

description: Cheumatopsyche chirapali Oláh & Johanson, new species   
Fig. 108, 175–178  
 This species is similar to C. parafra, new species from which it is distinguished by the presence of light pattern on the brown forewing membranes. In addition, segment IX is shorter; the apices of the elongated apicoventral setal lobes turning mesad, almost touching each other in dorsal view. Both coxopodite apices are strongly dilated; and the phallotheca is constricted at mid-length.   
Male. Body and wing membrane brown with light pubescence. Membrane of forewings with light pattern of 3 regularly elongated patches on costal margins, and 1 irregular patch at distal sections of cubital and anal veins. Maxillary palp segment I shortest, segment II longer, segments III and IV equally long, segment V as long as sum of segments I–IV. Head dorsum dark brown, with 5 warts of same dark colour. Proepisternum without swollen setal wart. Protarsal claws asymmetrical, laterally flanked by setal bundle. Protibiae each with 2 spurs. Forewing length 6.5 mm, hind wing length 5 mm. Forewing crossvein m-cu and cu tangental. Hing wing fork I absent.  
Male genitalia. Segment IX fused annularly, rather short; tergum almost as long as sternum (Fig. 175); anterior margins of segment IX regularly and shallowly convex in lateral view, tergal parts less excised, flatter than sternal parts (Fig. 175); apical lobe on posterolateral margins broadly triangular, short, located above base of coxopodites at mid-height of segment IX; spine row on posterior margins of segment IX continuous. Intersegmental step between segment IX and segment X deep. Segment X short, with apicoventral lobe subquadrangular in lateral view; narrowing in dorsal view (Fig. 176); bilobed in dorsal view. Transverse sutures crossing segment at posterior half. Longitudinal sutures not visible (Fig. 175). Setaless mesocaudal lobe forming slightly convex plate in dorsal view (Fig. 176). Apicoventral setal lobes orienting posterad; apices weakly curving dorsad; slightly tapering in lateral view (Fig. 175); strongly curving mesad (Fig. 176); apices almost touching. Pair of lateral setose areas flat, forming rounded setose surfaces, located well beyond transverse sutures above apicoventral setal lobes, at margin of setaless mesocaudal lobe (Fig. 175). Coxopodites extending well beyond apex of segment X, almost straight, apices dilating. Harpagones slender, curving dorsad, finger-like in lateral view (Fig. 175); and slightly sigmoid in ventral view (Fig. 177). Phallotheca (Fig. 178) strongly constricted at mid-length; sclerotised endothecal process elongated ovoid; phallotremal sclerites forming broad plate.  
 Holotype male: MADAGASCAR: Anosibe, 1955 [R. Paulian] (MNHN, in alcohol).   
 Distribution: Madagascar.   
 Etymology: from the elongated apicoventral lobes of segment X, long lobe, “chirapali” in Sanscrit.
description: Published as part of Oláh, János, Johanson, Kjell Arne & Barnard, Peter C., 2008, Revision of the Oriental and Afrotropical species of Cheumatopsyche Wallengren (Hydropsychidae, Trichoptera), pp. 1-171 in Zootaxa 1738 on page 72