Tetanoceroides fulvithorax, Malloch, 1933: 318

fulvithorax Malloch, 1933: 318 View in CoL ,

text figs. 57c–d (♂ terminalia)

HT: ♂ [ Chile, Los Lagos], Casa Pangue, NHMUK, unnumbered [examined by Zuska & Berg 1974: 338; not ♀ as stated by Malloch 1933: 319].

AT: ♀ [ Chile, Los Lagos], Castro.

PT: 2♂ [ Chile, Los Lagos] Castro, plus [ Chile, Los Lagos] Mechuqua Is. [= Isla Mechuque]; [ Chile, Araucanía] “Pailahueque;” and [ Argentina, Río Negro ] Bariloche [= San Carlos de Bariloche] (see Zuska & Berg 1974 for label data on some of the paratypes)

DIST: ARGENTINA ( Río Negro ). CHILE (Araucanía; Los Lagos: Castro (Isla de Chiloé); Los Ríos). Map: Zuska & Berg 1974

FIGS: Malloch 1933 (♂ terminalia), Zuska & Berg 1974 (habitus, ♂ terminalia, ♂ genitalia, color variation, fore leg; ♀ anal plate, ♀ terminalia, spermatheca)

BIOL: Abercrombie 1970

Note: The behavioral group (BG) and the phenological group (PG) are unknown. Abercrombie (1970) reported that while adults mated readily under laboratory conditions, with females laying viable eggs that hatched quickly, first-instar larvae failed to develop.

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: First-instar larvae killed and fed on Chilina fluctuosa , Helisoma trivolvis , Lymnaea viator , Physella gyrina , and Planorbella duryi (eggs only) but did not thrive on any of them.

IMMATS: Abercrombie 1970 (E, L1)