Phidon chanco sp. nov. of cockroach from the coastal forest of central Chile (Insecta: Blattaria)

Phidon chanco sp. nov. is the first species of the genus where both sexes are described Male and female genitalia are described and illustrated using SEM. The new species can be distinguished from the other members of the genus, by the existence of brachypterism in both sexes; in males the median triangle of the sternum IX is long, sclerotised, and its apex strongly armed with numerous denticles; in females the tergite X is emarginate. The new species is distributed exclusively in the coastal forests of central Chile, in association with remnants of native flora and protected areas.

NEW ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEES, AND OTHER NOTES

Bombus iridis phaceliœ, n. var.—♀. Hair of face black, with a little pale intermixed; yellow hair of thorax in front dense, not at all mixed with black; yellow of scutellum neither divided nor mixed with black; hair on inner side of basal joints of tarsi dark; hair on second and third abdominal segments entirely deep red (much less dense, and not nearly so bright as in B. ternarius), but second with a large bare median triangle; hair of fourth segment and sides of fifth yellow.