Metamorphosed females distinguished by the following characteristics: escal bulb with cylindrical distal prolongation, divided distally into 6 simple tapering filaments; tiny posterior appendage, papilliform; absence of additional escal appendages; simple barbel, undivided, bearing a distal tassel of appendages consisting of simple, cylindrical, distally unpigmented and slightly expanded prolongation of primary stem of barbel, surrounded at base by 3 shorter, unpigmented, compressed pointed branches, each bearing a series of sessile photophores along outer margin (Ref. 86949).