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Eubryopterella Roepke
Type
species: vaneeckei Roepke, Sulawesi.
The
addition of the two species described below extends the known range of this
genus to Sundaland. All three species have very similar facies of rather
obscure, narrow and irregular fasciation and variegation in brownish or bluish
grey, more clearly defined and elaborate on the forewing, though this situation
is reversed on the more simply fasciated underside. The male antennae are
densely fasciculate. The third segment of the labial palps is very short.
The male
abdomen has the eighth tergite more strongly sclerotised in two lateral bands
that are angled so as to be convergent or fused centrally and splayed as
apodemes anteriorly. The sternite also has two longitudinal bands of
sclerotisation with a weak corema in the lacuna between these; they arise from a
narrowly sclerotised and bowed anterior margin that has long and slender lateral
rods. This segment therefore could be interpreted as being of the framed,
corematous type, but modified. The genitalia have the tegumen and vinculum (with
saccus) rather elongate and narrow. The valves are elongate, narrow, oval to
rectangular, with sacculus and costa terminating in blunt processes at
approximately the centres of the dorsal and ventral margins. The juxta is a
simple, squarish plate. The aedeagus vesica is broad with several lobes and
areas of scobination.
The
female has the ostium slightly recessed within the sternite of the seventh
segment which is a bit shorter posteriorly than the tergite, the posterior
corners of which are produced ventrally.
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