Galapagos Species Database

MALE (n=11) (figs 1, 9, 10). Head brown with three longitudinal white lines reaching posterior margin of head: one on each side from antenna along upper side of eye and one medially from about anterior margin of eye; with a few white scales before antenna; frons paler brown than occiput and shining. Haustellum and maxillary palpus pale beige. Labial palpus with six thin longitudinal stripes: three white and three brown on segment II, and two of each color on segment III. Antenna from apex with two dark-brown flagellomeres, two white, five dark brown, one white, one dark brown, two white, three dark brown sometimes with white scales ventrally, rest (including scape) longitudinally lined with white and dark brown but some flagellomeres may lack white scales of second row. Thorax brown with three thin longitudinal white lines: one on each side laterally on medial side of tegula, prolonging lateral white lines of head, and one medially from base to posterior margin. Foreleg coxa laterally dark brown at base to pale greyish brown toward apex, pale greyish brown medially; femur mostly dark brown, with three short white stripes apically, with pale greyish-brown stripe medially; tibia dark brown with longitudinal white stripe laterally; tarsomeres I-III as tibia, tarsomere IV without white, tarsomere V white apically. Midleg coxa beige; femur greyish brown with few white scales apically; tibia dark brown with diagonal white lines at base, middle, and apex; tarsomeres dark greyish brown dorsally, beige ventrally, with a few white or off-white scales at apex of tarsomeres I-II, and V (Landry, 2001).