Polypedilum ( Pentapedilum ) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen

Polypedilum ( Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen View in CoL

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Polypedilum ( Pentapedilum) epleri Oyewo et Jacobsen, 2007: 225 View in CoL .

Material examined. USA: Florida, Everglades National Park , holotype male, reared from larva, 14.i.1999, D. A. Levitis ( NMNH) ; Florida, Everglades National Park , female allotype reared from larva, 14.i.1999, D. A. Levitis ; Florida, Everglades National Park , 5 males, 4 females, 10 pupae, 11 larvae paratypes, 28.x.1998, 14.i.1999, C. L. de la Rosa & R . E. Jacobsen; Florida, Highland County, Kissimmee River, Riverwoods Biological Field station , 7 males, 6 females, 4 pupae, 12 larvae paratypes, 24.vii.1998, 30.vii.1998, C. L. de la Rosa ; Ohio, Camden Lake , 5 males, 3 females, 4 pupae, 10 larvae paratypes, 4.x.1986, 21.vi.1987, 27.viii.1988, 6.viii.1989, 9.ii.1989, 20.ix.1990, M. Bolton ( ZXMBN)

Diagnostic characters. The species differs from other species with numerous macrotrichia on the wing, uniformly colored abdomen, and spur on the foretibia except P. ( Pe.) tritum by having a microtrichiose base of the superior volsella. It differs from P. ( Pe.) tritum by having a lower base of the superior volsella and slightly lower antennal ratio (0.9–1.2 as opposed to about 1.6). The pupa is distinguished from Nearctic and western Palaearctic Polypedilum species including P. ( Pe.) tritum by having 7 branches in the thoracic horn, shagreen on tergite IV – VI separated into 4 fields, with median field entirely separated from anterior band and with paired posterolateral fields as well having spines on conjunctives III / IV and IV / V. Larvae can be distinguished from other known Polypedilum larvae by a 16 toothed mentum with the second laterals slightly longer and wider than the median and first laterals.

Distribution. This species is known from Florida and Ohio, USA.