Galapagos Species Database

Description. Male (n = 17). Head beige along median line witll brown to dark-brown scales laterally. Haustellum beige. Labial palpus beige medially on segment II and at base and apex of segment III, brown laterally on segment II, dark brown on most of segment III. Antenna beige to dark brown, slightly paler on scape and first few flagellomeres; pecten made of about 25 long and thin scales; flagellomeres simple, with short setae and two sets of scales, the second erect. Thorax beige with three longitudinal dark-brown lines apically, or dark brown, but "greasy" in all specimens and consequently hard to characterize. Foreleg coxa dark brown with beige scales at base; femur dark brown, some specimens with scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally; tibia mostly dark brown with beige scaling at 1/3, 2/3, and terminally; tarsomeres I and II mostly dark hrown with scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally, with beige spot subterminally; tarsomere III mostly beige, with dark-brown scales at base and apex; tarsomere IV dark brown; tarsomere V beige with dark brown at base. Midleg coxa and femur dark brown; tibia dark brown with scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally, darker brown toward apex, with short and thin projecting scales dorsally at base, middle, and apex; tarsomeres dark brown with scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally, with darker brown scales apically on tarsomeres I-IV. Hindleg coxa with a mixture of beige and brown to dark-brown scales; femur dark brown; tibia dark brown with scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally, with darker brown spots at base, middle, and apex, and with projecting long and thin palebrown scales on entire dorsal margin and on ventral margin as a patch posterior to anterior pair of spurs; tarsomeres I-III with beige to dark-brown scales bicolored beige basally and dark brown distally, with darker brown scales apically; tarsomeres IV- V uniformly pale grayish brown; tarsomere I also with darker brown spot at middle and with patch of thin and long projecting scales dorsoapically; tarsomere II also with a few long and thin pale-brown scales projecting at apex dorsally (Landry, 2001).