Tomaspisinella ( Meretricula ) oliveirai, Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016

Tomaspisinella ( Meretricula) oliveirai n. sp.

Diagnosis. Combining the pygofer or T. punctatissima with the strongly curved, unarmed theca of T, pallidiceps .

Description. Head black, body and tegmina dark brown, unmarked. Head in profile with frons convex, weakly angulate. Subgenital plates with avicephaliform tips; theca slender throughout, sickle-shaped, unarmed ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A– B). Length: male 3.2–3.5 mm; female unknown.

Types. Holotype male, BRAZIL: Minas Gerais ─ Santa Barbara, Caraca , Jan. 1970 ( F.M. Oliveira); BM 1971- 165 in BMNH . Paratypes: 4 males, same data; mounted in pairs. Two paratypes in BMNH ; 2 paratypes No. 24227 in CNCI.

Tomaspisinella ( Meretricula) pallidiceps sp. nov.

Etymology. pallidus (adj.), wan; ceps (n.), head.

Diagnosis. Head including eyes ivory, paler than brown body.

Description. Shiny, hairless; face receding; legs and dorsum brown; venter and tegmina blackish brown; tegmina 2× as long as wide. Male pygofer short, dorsal and ventral surfaces diverging caudad ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B); subgenital plates curving dorsad at tips, in ventral aspect evenly tapered to pointed tips, separated by narrow slit extending nearly halfway to base of segment (as in fig. 29D); styles fused to phallobase, minutely setose on dorsal angle; theca long, unarmed, almost as strongly curved as in T. oliveirai . Length: male 3.2 mm; female unknown.

Type. Holotype male, ECUADOR: Orellana ─ Estacion Cientifica Yasuni , 17 Oct. 2003 ( M.H. Evans) in flight intercept trap; in ILNHS.