Tumicla eala (Kühne, 2007)

(Figs. 10I, 19)

1♂; GABON • ♂; Makokou, Ipassa, 500 m; 0°30’43”N 12°48’13”E; 19-2/ 11-3-2011; Durante leg.; Gen. sl. n. 612 MAD. In the first author’s collection.

Remarks. Original description in Kühne (2007); type locality Eala, on the Lolifa river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with a habitat nowadays very similar to that of the Gabonese specimen and presumably also similar at the time of the type series, which dates back to 1936. Herein we add only a few observations regarding male genital morphology: uncus quite large, curved backwards, distally pointed; tegumen triangular, slightly longer than the eighth tergite (dorsal view); tuba analis membranous; vinculum U-shaped (ventro-caudal view) with fairly robust arms; saccus not deep; juxta pentagonal with a swelling in the middle; fultura superior double shield-shaped. Valva squat (about twice as long as wide at the median points); costa almost straight; apex highly rounded; termen convex, indented with a small conical process at the tornus. Processus distalis plicae unnoticeable, but 3-5 small residual setae are present. Aedeagus quite long, with a distal concavity just before the distal end, hosting a bent thornlike cornutus; coecum penis practically absent. Vesica not strongly everted, probably elongate, with no cornuti.