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ardeni, NMNH HOLOTYPE MALE 5-24-A, GUAT (F, leg I, 4x)

GUATEMALA, San Pedro, Carchá, Alta Verapas, Rio Tzunuts; 16.xi.1944, (G.F.Fairchild)— male (reared; in seven slides containing the head, cibarium, legs, wings, puapl exuviae, gill filaments and genitalia) [HOLOTYPE] [The slides bear several labels: White label with black edges handwritten in red ink by H.T.Dalmat “HOLOTYPE Male Simulium (Dryarella) ardeni, n.sp. H.T.Dalmat” and in black ink “acc. no. 5-24A”; one slide have in red ink “female” instead; White label ith black ink in Dalmats’ hand with the locality information, date and collector’s name. Other label here added at the back of the slides: White label “Simulium ardeni Dalmat syn. of S. yepocapense Dalmat Ex: L.M.Hernández 2010”; White label “Digitally photographed head, wing, legs, genitalia and gill filaments L.M.Hernández 2010”].@PHOTOS: Legs I-III; wing, genitalia, gill filamentsf

. Photographer: Luis Hernandez Triana (BMNH) using Automontage system at WRBU / SI NMNH. Publisher: Ornstein, Hannah.