Anacroneuria

Anacroneuria PA-3

(Figs. 22-24)

Material examined. PARAGUAY: cerca Hernandarias, Boca de Rio Acaray, 4 November 1956, C.J.D. Brown, 2♀ (BYUC).

Adult habitus. General color brown, patterned with pale areas. Head with a dark quadrate area covering ocelli and extending to M-line; diffuse brown pigment occurs forward of M-line and extending anterolaterally from dark pigment (Fig. 22); lappets and antennae brown, palpi pale brown. Pronotum pale brown with darker rugosities and a pale median band. Hind femora and tibia brown. Wings transparent, veins brown.

Male. Unknown.

Female. Forewing length 16 mm. Subgenital plate four lobed with lobes approximately equal in size (Fig. 24). Sternum 9 with a wide, well developed posterior sclerite which bears prominent setae over most of length but bare mesally; mesal sclerite bearing long setae posterolaterally and fine setae basally and mesally.

Egg. Spindle shaped moderate in length and broadly rounded at anterior pole. Collar bears a small membranous cap (Fig. 23).

Comments. The subgenital plate of this species is generally similar to that of A. debilis (Froehlich 2002) but the egg and color pattern are distinct.