Microphorella acuminata lineage

This lineage includes the following five species: M. acuminata sp. nov., M. compacta sp. nov., M. cornuta sp. nov., M. elongata sp. nov. and M. tenuis sp. nov. Males of these species have the tubercle of the hind trochanter short and cylindrical with a stubby spine-like seta (Figs 77, 73), scutum blackish with a metallic blue tinge (Fig. 71), and distinctive male genitalic morphology (Figs 74–85) characterized by the following features, of which, the last two are considered synapomorphies of the lineage: relatively compact hypopygium with small hypandrium, long narrow ventral epandrial lobe, broadly curved phallus, small simple cercus, left surstylus structure (i.e., with long narrow dorsal lobe and shorter narrow ventral lobe), digitiform apical projection of the left postgonite lobe.