Euplocania vaupesiana, Vinasco-Mondragón & González-Obando & García-Aldrete, 2018

Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe, González-Obando, Ranulfo & García-Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2018, The species group Amabilis of the genus Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Ptiloneuridae), Zootaxa 4444 (1), pp. 43-65 : 61-63

Euplocania vaupesiana n. sp. Male

Figs 61–66

Diagnosis. It is close to E. picta New & Thornton , E. pictaoides García Aldrete , E. caldasi n. sp., and E. ecuatoriana n. sp., from which it differs by the posterior processes of the central sclerite of the hypandrium and by the endophallic sclerites.

Color (in 80% ethanol). Head pattern ( Fig. 63 ). Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Labrum pale brown. Genae with transverse dark brown stripes. Antennae pale brown, distally cream. Maxillary palps brown, Mx4 distally dark brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax dark brown, with sides pale brown. Thoracic pleura dark brown, with white spots. Coxae pale brown. Forewings veins brown, with a dark brown spot at wing margin. Pterostigma dark brown ( Fig. 61 ). Hindwings hyaline, veins brown, with a brown spot at wing margin ( Fig. 62 ). Abdomen creamy, with dark brown subcuticular bands. Central sclerite of hypandrium pale brown, with median Y-shaped dark brown mark; postero-lateral processes ochre. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown.

Morphology. Head ( Fig. 63 ): H/MxW: 1.48; compound eyes large, H/d: 3.75; H/D: 2.45; IO/MxW: 0.51. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with six denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 2.27. Forewings ( Fig. 61 ): L/W: 2.35. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.19, areola postica tall, posteriorly slanted, side sclerites triangular, al/ah: 1.48. Hindwings ( Fig. 62 ): l/w: 2.56. Central sclerite of hypandrium slightly convex anteriorly, with a short and broad median arc flanked by two postero-lateral process; side sclerites triangular ( Fig. 66 ). Phallosome ( Fig. 65 ) anteriorly V-shaped, with slender side struts; external parameres membranous, distally broad and rounded, internally with a thin sclerotized band; two pairs of endophallic sclerites, antero-mesal endophallic pair with emarginated borders; mesal endophallic sclerite transverse, obtusely concave anteriorly, posterior borders denticulate on each side of median process ( Fig. 65 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 64 ) almost elliptic, with a dense setal field distally; sensory fields with 28 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 64 ) broad, semioval, rounded posteriorly, setal fields on sides and anteriorly and one large seta on each side.

Measurements. FW: 3875, HW: 2500, F: 925, T: 1175, t1: 550, t2: 90, t3: 140, ctt1: 20, f1: 770, f2:720, Mx4: 250, IO: 570, D: 460, d: 300, IO/d: 1.90, PO: 0.65.

Specimen studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Vaupés, Taraira, Mosiro-Itajura Biological Station . 01°3’43.8”S : 69°29’57.28”W. 60 m. 28.IV–25.V.2004. M. Pinzón, M. 4819. Malaise trap. IAvH E-161335.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Colombian Amazonian Department of Vaupés, where the holotype was collected.

Figures

FIGURES 61–66. Euplocania vaupesiana n. sp. Male. 61. Forewing. 62. left hindwing. 63. Front view of head. 64. Left paraproct and epiproct. 65. Phallosome. 66. Hypandrium. Scales in mm.