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PERU, Huancabamba; 6.ix.1911, (C.H.T.Townsend)— female (no associated with pupal exuviae) [HOLOTYPE] (USNM, cat.no. 15307) [The speciens is glued to a card point by the vetrolateral right side; it has lost three legs from the left side, but otherwise is in good condition. It bear several labels: White label with locality and collection date handwritten in black ink; White label with collectors’ name printed in black inl; White label in handwritten in black ink “Small tooth”; Red label 15307 U.S.N.M.”; White label with black line around the edges and handwritten in black ink “Simulium nitidum Malloch”; White label, handwritten in pencil “Syn of metallicum Luz ?1925 Shelley 1982”. Other labels here added: White label “Digitally photographed Thorax ant+post; abdomen, lateral view L.M.Hernández 2010”; White label “Simulium nitidum Malloch syn. of S. metallicum Bellardi in Shelley et al., 1984”.]@PHOTOS: Th. ant, post (6x); abdomen lateral and dorsal view (4x)