Aspicera gemmae Ros-Farre & Pujade-Villar 2013, n. sp.

(Figs 11a & b)

Type material: (1♂). HOLOTYPE male (CNCI) 17/VII/1988, BC, Anahim Lake to Redstone, 1000 to 1500 m, CANADA, S & J Peck, car netting pine sand land.

Diagnosis. Aspicera gemmae has sharp and dense punctuation on scutum, lacks median mesoscutal carina, and scutellar foveae are clearly striate. This species is similar to A. carlestolrai, but in A. gemmae scutellar foveae are carinate only near interfoveal carina and scutellar spine is wide, while in A. carlestolrai scutellar foveae are completely carinate and scutellar spine is thin.

Length. Male 3.7 mm.; female unknown.

Coloration. Head, mesosoma, metasoma and antenna black. Coxa and trocanter black, remaining leg segments medium brown. Wing veins medium brown.

Head. Frons coriaceous, slightly striate longitudinally. Lateral frontal carinae sharp, curved with small teeth, area between lateral frontal carinae and compound eye coriaceous. Gena in lateral view rounded, expanded, coriaceous, with many transverse carinae. Vertex not incised, coriaceous, punctate. Ocelli weakly prominent. Occiput coriaceous, with some weak longitudinal rugae behind ocelli and near lateral margins, behind compound eye.

Antenna. Filiform. F1 clearly excavated. Antennal formula: 5(4): 2(2.5): 7(2): 5(2): 5(2): 5(2.5): 5(3): 4.5(2.5): 4.5(2.5): 4.5(2): 4.5(2): 4.5(2): 4(2): 7(2).

Mesosoma. Lateral surface of pronotum coriaceous. Subpronotal plate not projected, dorsal margin pubescent. Scutum coriaceous, punctuations small and dense, distance between them smaller than their diameter. Lateral line incomplete, only present on basal 2/3, antero-admedian lines very weak, reaching 1/3–1/2 scutum length, parallel. Medial mesoscutal line present only between antero-admedian lines, very weak. Notauli and median mesoscutal furrow very weakly striate transversely. Area between notauli not prominent in lateral view. Parascutal sulcus narrow, ending in front of tegula, smooth, with some scattered setae. Mesopleuron carinate and coriaceous on anterior 1/3, smooth posteriorly. Scutellum 0.9 times scutum length, sharply emarginate. Scutellar foveae deep, shiny, sharply carinate near interfoveal carina, scutellar pits absent. Interfoveal carina and longitudinal carinae inside foveae continuing along scutellar disc until end of scutellar spine. Scutellar disc flat, coriaceous, with longitudinal carinae and weakly rugose, straight and sloping towards end of scutellar spine in lateral view. Scutellar spine wide, short, 0.32 times length of scutellar disc, coriaceous, longitudinally carinate, triangle-shaped, rather blunt, directed downwards in lateral view.

Wing. Wing membrane slightly brownish. Radial cell 2.11 times longer than wide. Wing pubescence reduced. Marginal pubescence present basally. R1 very short. R2 straight, slightly curved near dorsal margin. Rs+M marked by a shadow.

Derivatio nominis. Dedicated to Gemma Pujade i Vilageliu, daughter of the second author.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Nearctic: Canada (British Columbia).