Triplocania galileii, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García, 2021

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2021, New species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae) from Colombia and Peru, Zootaxa 5080 (1), pp. 1-63 : 31-33

Triplocania galileii n. sp. Male

( Figs 79–84 )

Diagnosis. It belongs in species group lucida , of Subgroup MPB2A (see Classification below). It is close to T. fabridiazi n. sp., with which it shares the same forewing pattern and having the setae on the forewing veins arising from brown areolae; the areola postica in both species is tall, triangular, almost reaching M. In both species there is a tuft of macrosetae on each latero-mesal process of the central sclerite of the hypandrium, and in T. galileii n. sp., the median posterior process of the central sclerite of the hypandrium is distally only slightly bilobed, with the lobes rounded, not directed outward as in T. fabridiazi n. sp. The phallosome and endophallic sclerites ( Fig. 84 ) are similar in both species, but the anterior endophallic sclerites are proximally wider, each with only one pointed process, and are slender, distally pointed in T. galileii , while in T. fabridiazi they are proximally slender, ending in 2–3 short, pointed processes; the distal arms are broad, distally truncate in T. fabridiazi .

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Head pale brown, with ochre spots pattern ( Fig. 81 ). Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; antennae pale brown, flagellomeres with cream apices; maxillary palps pale brown, Mx4 darker. Thorax pale brown, pronotum ochre, with small ochre spots, tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax pale brown; pleurae pale brown, with small ochre spots. Coxae cream, trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi pale brown. Forewings hyaline, pterostigma pale brown, with a large, hyaline median area; veins pale brown, a pale brown spot on vein ends ( Fig. 79 ). Hindwings hyaline, veins pale brown ( Fig. 80 ). Abdomen creamy, with brown-ochre subcuticular spots; hypandrium, paraprocts and epiproct pale brown; endophallic sclerites dark brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 81 ): H/MxW: 1.46; H/D: 2.64; IO/MxW: 0.75. Vertex slightly emarginate, above the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with four wide denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.33. Forewings ( Fig. 79 ): L/W: 2.52. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.83. Areola postica triangular: la/ha: 1.65, CuA 1 straight distally. Hindwings ( Fig. 80 ): l/p: 2.84. Hypandrium ( Fig. 83 ) of three sclerites, central sclerite with anterior margin strongly convex. Phallosome with side struts slender, Y-shaped anteriorly, basally separated; three pairs of endophallic sclerites, anterior pair T-shaped, with inner arms strongly curved on the inner side acuminate basally, close together in the middle, with acuminate small teeth on the inner margin ( Fig. 84 ), outer arm laterally curved, projecting towards the posterior endophallic sclerite, this is wide, curved inward and with three apical acuminates processes inwardly directed, mesal arm elongated, laminar, acuminate distally; pair of mesal endophallic sclerites elbowed in the middle, basally truncate, almost touching in the middle; external parameres membranous, distally rounded, bearing pores, directed inward. ( Fig. 84 ). Paraprocts oval, with abundant medium and short setae and macrosetae on apical third, one macroseta with spatulate apex, other macrosetae near each sensory field, these with 20 trichobothria on basal rosettes ( Fig. 82 ). Epiproct ( Fig. 82 ) wide, semioval, broadly rounded posteriorly, setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 3587, HW: 2557, F: 900, T: 1507, t1: 675, t2: 80, t3: 110, ctt1: 24, f1: 587, f2: 450, f3: 382, f4: 350, f5: 275, f6: 225, f7: 195, f8: 175, f9: 170, f10: 175, f11: 180, Mx4: 240, IO: 445, d: 210, D: 326, IO/d: 2.12, PO: 0.64.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Caquetá. San Vicente del Caguán, Laureles, Reserva Indígena Altamira , 2º27’50.14”N: 74º55’2.06”W, 917 m. 27–28.III.2017. Led light trap in forest canopy. J. Panche. MUSENUV slide code 29942 . Paratypes: 1 male, same data as the holotype .

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei, Italian physicist, astronomer, and engineer, father of observational astronomy and modern physics.

Figures

FIGURES 79–84. Triplocania galileii n. sp. Male. 79. Forewing. 80. Hindwing. 81. Front view of head. 82. Epiproct and right paraproct. 83. Hypandrium. 84. Phallosome. Scales in mm.