Appearance
...; fore wings with 2 transverse dark bands. Head and pronotum with no long setae. Fore tarsus apically with stout recurved ventral hamus. Antennae 9-segmented, segment III with linear sensorium short, IV with sensorium less than 0.5 as long as segment and scarcely curved at apex, V–IX forming a single unit with V about equal in length to VI–IX. Median marginal setae on sternites arising at or close to margin, but lateral two pairs arise sub-marginally; sternite VII supernumerary paired setae arise almost medially on disc.Male without tergal tubercles; setae at base of claspers on tergite IX longer than clasper, without stout curved seta lateral to clasper.
Distribution
British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, northern California.References:
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