Protodictya chilensis, Malloch, 1933: 319

chilensis Malloch, 1933: 319 View in CoL ,

text figs. 56c, 57e–g (head, ♂ terminalia)

HT: ♂ Chile, Llanquihue, Peulla. NHMUK, unnumbered

AT: ♀ Chile, Llanquihue, Peulla

Note: Holotype and allotype apparently not subsequently examined.

PT: Malloch (1933: 320–321) stated, “ 18 paratypes, Peulla, Bariloche, Puerto Varas, Ensenada, Santiago, and Angol.” Marinoni & Knutson (1992: 29), under “Material-tipo examinado,” listed the following five specimens (all bearing a manuscript label “ paratype No. 44666”) as paratypes: 1♂ “Santiago/ Chile ”; 1♂ “Angol-Chile/ 28-Oct-1925 ”; 1♂ “Puerto Varas/Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon”; 1♀ “Puerto Varas/ Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon”; 1♀ “Ensenada/Llanquihue/ Chile, Dec. 1926, R. & E. Shannon.” Marinoni & Knutson (1992: 29) also listed 1♀ Puerto Varas, X.1926, R. & E. Shannon and 1♂ Bariloche, – XI.1926, R. & E. Shannon among “Material examinado” but without paratype number labels although they obviously were part of Malloch’s type series. All in USNM

DIST: ARGENTINA ( Buenos Aires; Chubut; Río Negro ). CHILE ( Araucanía; Atacama; Biobío; Coquimbo; Los Lagos; Los Ríos; Maule; Metropolitana de Santiago; Valparaíso). Map: Marinoni & Knutson 1992

FIGS: Marinoni & Knutson 1992 (♂ terminalia, ♂ sternite 5; ♀ terminalia, spermatheca), Marinoni & Carvalho 1993 (♂ genitalia; spermatheca), Marinoni & Mathis 2000 (antenna, ♂ terminalia, ♂ genitalia; ♀ terminalia, spermatheca), Knutson & Vala 2011 (wing), this paper (habitus, antenna, ♂ sternite 5)

BIOL: Abercrombie 1970. BG: 11; PG: 6

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Larvae of P. chilensis fed on the following molluscs in the laboratory: Aplexa marmorata , Biomphalaria glabrata , Chilina fluctuosa , Galba humilis , Gyraulus parvus , Helisoma anceps , H. trivolvis , Lymnaea viator , Physa peruviana , Physella gyrina , Pisidium sp. , Stagnicola palustris , Succinea aequinoctialis , and Tropicorbis chilensis ( Abercrombie 1970) . V.W. Kaczynski (in litt.) noted that larvae also killed and fed on operculate snails.

IMMATS: Abercrombie 1970 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)