Euplocania bonaverensis, Obando, Ranulfo González, García Aldrete, Alfonso N. & Gironza, Nancy Carrejo, 2015

Obando, Ranulfo González, García Aldrete, Alfonso N. & Gironza, Nancy Carrejo, 2015, New species of Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Psocomorpha: Ptiloneuridae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4033 (4), pp. 507-528 : 508-510

Euplocania bonaverensis n. sp. Male

( Figs 3–8 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in species group “C”, in the classification of García Aldrete et al. (2013). Differing from E. vallecaucana n. sp., described below, in having the median processes of the hypandrium preapically widened and in details of the phallosome (compare Figs 8 and 68 in this paper).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale yellowish brown, with pigmented brown areas as indicated below. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Brown irregular areas from each compound eye to ocellar group and to epistomal sulcus, as illustrated ( Fig. 5 ). Postclypeus brown, with postero-lateral areas pale brown. Genae ochre. Anteclypeus, labrum, mandibles, maxillae and labium pale yellowish brown. Mx 1–3 pale brown, Mx4 dark brown. Thorax brown, tergal lobes of mesothorax with dark brown spots, metathorax pale brown. Mesopleura with dark brown spots. Legs pale brown, forelegs with coxae dark brown, femur proximally and distally brown. Wings hyaline, pterostigma with proximal and distal brown bands, veins with brown areolae at setal insertions, and brown spots at wing margin, a pale brown band from R4+5 to M4, a small brown spot in areola postica, and a brown band from proximal half of Cu1 to cell Cu2. Abdomen pale brown, with subcuticular bands dark brown. Hypandrium, epiproct and paraprocts pale brown. Phallosome brown, with endophallic sclerites dark brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head: H/MxW: 1.45; H/d: 2.46; IO/MxW: 0.73. Upper ends of compound eyes almost reaching the level of the vertex. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with three denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.45. Forewings ( Fig. 3 ): L/W: 2.43. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.5, areola postica tall, triangular: al/ah: 1.21, R4+5 strongly sinuous, M4 distally forked. Hindwings ( Fig. 4 ): l/w: 2.85. Hypandrium ( Fig. 7 ), of one piece, setose as illustrated; phallosome with side struts Y-shaped, external parameres laminar, dilated distally, apex rounded, bearing pores and small teeth on posterior border ( Fig. 8 ); three pairs of endophallic sclerites, the anterior pair with outer arm curved, and inner arm slender and elongate, with a long, stout, distally acuminate sclerite between them; mesal pair with arms curved, wide proximally, distally acuminate; posterior pair slender, bow shaped, each arm with a pointed tooth mesally on outer border ( Fig. 8 ). Epiproct ( Fig. 6 ) trapeziform, with a group of three mesal setae near anterior border, a small setal field on each side, and posterior border with a field of microsetae and a row of setae. Paraprocts ( Fig. 6 ) robust, almost elliptic, with distal setal field as illustrated, sensory fields oval, with 22 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements. FW: 3275, HW: 2350, f1: 512, f2: 375, Mx4: 217, IO: 400, D: 225, d: 325, IO/d: 1.23. PO: 1.44.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Buenaventura. El Salto, Pericos Nature Reserve, 0 3°50'55.7''N: 76°47'14.0'' W, 478 m. 3–5.I.2014. O. Saenz. Led light trap on canopy. Paratype: 1 male, same data as holotype (MUSENUV).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the municipality of Buenaventura.

Figures

FIGURES 3 – 8. E. bonaverensis n. sp. Male. 3. Forewing. 4. Hindwing. 5. Front view of head. 6. Paraproct and epiproct. 7. Hypandrium. 8. Phallosome. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 63 – 68. E. vallecaucana n. sp. Male. 63. Forewing. 64. Hindwing. 65. Front view of head. 66. Paraproct and epiproct. 67. Hypandrium. 68. Phallosome. Scales in mm.