Helina trinubilifera (Malloch, 1921)

(Figs 48–51)

Examined type material: Holotype male seen; right wing damaged at middle on fore-margin; pin rusty close to the specimen. One male from Kenya (Chyulu Hills) dissected and illustrated.

Diagnosis. Scutum dark brown-grey pollinose; postpedicel about 2.5 times as long as pedicel; palpus black; dorsocentrals 1+3; fore tibia without anterodorsal seta; crossvein dm–cu strongly sigmoid, with a round brown spot on each extremity; margin of upper calypter fuscous.

Male terminalia. Sternite 5 with posterior membrane deep, with long setae, longer on lobes (Fig. 48); cercal plate square, with a deep emargination at apex (Fig. 49); surstylus very short (Fig. 50); aedeagal complex with epiphallus a little longer than postgonite; distiphallus membranous (Fig. 51).

Notes. The species was originally described from Kenya in Spilaria Schnabl, 1911 and was later placed in Helina, subgenus Euspilaria, by Emden (1951).