Kisaura
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Ordo: Trichoptera
Familia: Philopotamidae
Name
Kisaura Ross, 1956 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Type species
Sortosa obrussa Ross 1956[1]: 57 (original designation).
Description
Spurs: 2, 4, 4; wings with primitive venation except fork I variable: it may be near or considerably beyond sectorial cross vein s, or R2 may be atrophied and 2A of forewing incomplete (Ross 1956[1]). Male genitalia with pair of lateral processes between Xth tergite and preanal appendages; inferior appendages simple, with mesoventral plate developed between two segments; apical segment of inferior appendage with diagnostic longitudinal row of spine-like setae on its inside mesal surface.
Distribution
Oriental and Palaearctic Regions.
Diagnosis
The genus Kisaura can be easily separated from Dolophilodes Ulmer by a pair of elongate and sclerotized lateral processes of segment X and by the brush-like row of dark setae on the inner surface of apical segment of the inferior appendages which are lacking in Dolophilodes.
Taxon Treatment
- Pandher, M; Saini, M; 2011: First report of the genus Kisaura Ross (Trichoptera, Philopotamidae) from India with the description of six new species ZooKeys, 152: 71-86. doi
