Fernandoschmidia aramaniya Holzenthal & Andersen, 2007, new species
Creators: name: Holzenthal, Ralph W.
name: Andersen, Trond
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Leptoceridae
Fernandoschmidia
Fernandoschmidia aramaniya

description: Fernandoschmidia aramaniya, new species
Figs. 18–20
Characters to separate this new species from F. amudita are discussed under the diagnosis of that species.
Adult. Length of forewing: male 6.5 mm (n=3), female 7.5–8.0 (n=2). Color brown, with scattered small patches of white hairs and distinct white spots at arculus, stigma, and apical wing margin; female coloration as in male, but patches and spots cream colored.
Male. Abdominal segment IX annular, setose, especially ventrally; in lateral view anterior and posterior margins parallel; tergum IX long; anterior margin with pair of small acrotergites; posterior extension of sternum IX short, 1/2 length of sternum, in ventral view divided into pair of widely separated digitate processes, apices rounded, in lateral view digitate, tapering to acute apex. Preanal appendage oblanceolate, heavily setose, longer than segment X, apex acute, slightly directed mesad. Inferior appendage with broad, compact basal region and narrow digitate apical region, ventrolateral corner of basal region with rounded, flange-like, sclerotized ridge (best seen in caudal view), apical region bifurcate apically, dorsal fork very short, broadly digitate, ventral fork short, very narrow. Tergum X saddle-shaped, short, about 1/3 width of segment IX, in lateral view triangular, apex acute, dorsolaterally with pair of low, weakly developed protuberances, in dorsal view apex slightly emarginate. Phallic apparatus elongate; phallobase subspherical, only partially fused with phallicata; phallobase ventrolaterally with ridge-like flange articulating with dorsolateral corners of basal region of inferior appendages; phallicata gradually curved ventrad along its length, apex of phallicata slightly expanded, with apicomesal membranes; dorsally with low medial keel; parameres long, heavily sclerotized, curved, bearing numerous thick spines mesally and apically; phallotremal sclerite not discernable.
Female. Segment IX short, in lateral view posterior margin slightly rounded, anteroventral margin sinuous. Tergum X long, almost as long as preanal appendages, in lateral view triangular, apex subacute, in dorsal view broadly rounded, surface with crescentric striae; basolaterally without papillate processes. Preanal appendage long, digitate, setose. Lamella very large, very narrowly constricted basally, in lateral view directed ventrad, dorsal margin broadly rounded, ventral margin straight, apex rounded, outer and inner surfaces setose; in ventral view lamella straight, mesal surface concave. Gonopod plate basolateral edges produced in flanges, apex with very slight excavation, surface with fine striation. Spermathecal sclerite complex, in ventral view oval, apex subacute, laterally with semimembranous flanges, medially with keyhole-shaped sclerite.
Holotype male: INDIA: (U.J.K.H.) [Assam, United Khasi-Jaintia Hills District] Demthring, 16.iv.1960, F. Schmid (CNC).
Paratypes: INDIA: (U.J.K.H.) [Assam, United Khasi-Jaintia Hills District] Thangrain, 22.iv.1960, F. Schmid — 2 males (CNC); same data as holotype — 2 females (CNC).
Distribution. India.
Etymology. This Sanskrit name was used by Schmid. We could not find an exact translation, but as a part of some words it may pertain to pleasant or delightful. The epithet is to be regarded as a noun in apposition.
description: Published as part of Holzenthal, Ralph W. & Andersen, Trond, 2007, Review of the caddisfly genus Tagalopsyche with the description of new species and a related new genus (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae: Mystacidini), pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 1483 on pages 26-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176909