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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK XLVIII 1987 p. 151-152 Record of Smicridea jamaicensis Flint from Cuba (Trichoptera: Hydropsy chidae) By J. OLÁH (Received December 1, 1986) Abstract: Record of Smicridea jamaicensis Flint from Cuba (Trichoptera, Hydropsychidae). - Smicridea jamaicensis Flint, a common hydropsychid species on the island of Jamaica, was recorded from Cuba and compared with the very closely related species of Smicridea comma Banks, widely distributed in Cuba. In 1982 near Pavon, Cuba a light trap was operated by J. PEKLI, a Hungarian scientist, in order to study the population dynamics of aquatic Coleoptera as possible predators on fish larvae in fish ponds. I have reoeived a badly preserved light trap material collected between 15.03.1982 and 06.04.1982. Mostly broken specimens of a Smicridea species were the only caddisfliesin the material. During the last years a significant amount of information has accumulated on the Cuban caddisfly fauna (BOTOSANEANU and SYKORA 1973, BOTOS ANE ANU 1977, 1979, 1980). My trials to relate these animals to the known Cuban Smicridea comma Banks and S. obesa Banks were unsuccessful!, and finally I have identified the species as Smicridea jamaicensis Flint, a very common Trichoptera on the nearby island of Jamaica. The species is very closely related to Smicridea comma Banks, 1924. BANKS described his species, like many others, without any drawings. According to the original description the legs are yellowish, but the hind tibiae are dark brown, wings with brown and yellow hairs, of an even colour throughout, except for a faint band before the middle of whitish hairs, and for a large comma-shaped white spot, the end of which extends from the stigma and reaches in a curve more than one half way across the wing. FLINT (1967) re-examined the types of the species described by BANKS. Unfortunately, the type-series of this species contpins only females. As a result, the drawings for S

. comma Banks were prepared from a male being identical in maculation with type. The wings are brown with a white comma-shaped mark at the stigma and another transverse white band basally. On these figures the basal segment of the clasper is stout cylindrical, apical segment almost straight with blunt apices. In dorsal aspect the rounded lobes of the tenth tergite reach each other mesad. Smicridea jamaicensis Flint 1968 differs from S. comma Banks, 1924 in lacking the conspicuous transverse pale band on the fore wings and in having an almost uniform brown colour. The apical segment of the clasper is curving mesad with apices tapering and incurving. In dorsal aspect the rounded lobes of the tenth tergite are well separated from each other. The Smicridea specimens collected at Pavon have fore wings with completely uniform brown colour (Fig. 1). Venation typical of the subgenus Smicridea (Smicridea) (Flint ,1974) and well fits to the original description of S. comma Banks, 1924. On the fore wings fork 1 about as long as pedicel; fork 2 very narrow at base, reaching a little before fork 3, both with pedicel nearly equal to the median cell; fork 4 with very short pedicel; fork 5 hardly reaches as far back as fork 4. Unfor-