Euplocania huitota, Vinasco-Mondragón & González-Obando & García Aldrete, 2022

Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe, González-Obando, Ranulfo & García Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2022, New species of Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Psocomorpha) from Colombia and Ecuador, Zootaxa 5188 (2), pp. 101-120 : 105-107

Euplocania huitota n. sp. Male

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Diagnosis. Belonging in species group bonaverensis , of González, García Aldrete, Carrejo & Panche (2018). By the shape of the hypandrium, it seems closer to E. kakwa n. sp., than to E. napensis n. sp. It differs from the latter by having the postero-mesal projections of the hypandrium slightly curved inward and, by the shape of the anterior endophallic sclerites, each one consisting of two elongate and acuminates sclerites that converge on the mesal sclerite and articulated to the lateral sclerites as in Fig. 5 .

Color (of parts mounted on slide). Head ( Fig. 3 ) brown to ochraceous, with pattern of dark spots, obtuse light band from epistomal sulcus to anterior margin of compound eyes, including antennal sockets. Compounds eyes dark brown, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Clypeus dark brown; labrum pale brown. Genae dark brown. Maxillary palps pale brown. Legs: coxae brown, fore- femora brown proximally, cream distally; mid- and hindfemora brown, cream apically; trochanters cream, tibiae and tarsi light brown. Forewings ( Fig. 1 ) mostly hyaline, veins brown, with brown spots on veins ends; pterostigma with proximal and distal dark bands; cells cu1 and cu2 with dark brown areas. Hindwings ( Fig. 2 ) hyaline, veins brown. Hypandrium brown, with postero-median border darker, median posterior processes pale brown. Epiproct and paraprocts light brown.

Morphology. Head: H/MxW: 3.6; vertex and fronto-orbital area with numerous setae. Compound eyes large, H/ D: 2.5; IO/MxW: 0.19. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with four-five denticles. Forewings: L/W: 2.34. Pterostigma wider in the middle: lp/wp: 1.43. Areola postica 1.2 times as tall as wide, with apex rounded: al/ah: 1.21. M four branched, M 4 forked. Hindwings: l/w: 3.45. Hypandrium ( Fig. 6 ) of a single sclerite, anteriorly angled, posteriorly deeply incised, two pairs of posterior processes, central pair four times as long as the length of the lateral processes, rounded apically, bearing setae as illustrated. Phallosome ( Fig. 5 ), side struts V-shaped; external parameres wider anteriorly, bearing pores distally; four pairs of endophallic sclerites, anterior sclerites articulated to lateral sclerites, each consisting of two elongate and acuminate sclerites that converge on the mesal sclerite; pair of lateral sclerites elongate, 4 times as long as wide; antero-median sclerites elongate, sinuous, distally attached to a posterior sclerite, distally acuminate and curved inward; pair of mesal sclerites short, with anterior margin convex, almost touching in the mesal line, apically pointed and directed posteriorly. Paraprocts ( Fig. 4 ) ovoid, with dense area of setae on apical half; sensory fields with 22 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 4 ) triangular, setae as illustrated.

Measurements (in microns). FW: 2575, HW: 1900, F: 650, T: 1125, t1: 480, t2: 60, t3: 100, ctt1: 20, f1: 370, f2: 250, f3: 240, f4: 190, f5: 150, f6: 150, f7: 120, f8: 120, f9: 100, f10: 110, f11: 110, Mx4: 180, Mx3: 50, Mx2: 120, IO: 350, D: 290, d: 200, IO/d: 1.75, PO: 0.69.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Putumayo. Puerto Leguizamo. Resguardo Tukunare, buffer area of National Natural Park La Paya , 0°07’24.65’’N: 74°55’38.11’’W, 189 m., 8-9.II.2016, MUSENUV slide code 29958. J. Panche. Led light trap in forest canopy . Paratype: One male. Amazonas. Leticia. San Martín de Amacayacu. Agua Blanca trail, 3º42’19.0”S: 70º20’26.1” W, 70 m. 12-13.VIII.2015. MUSENUV slide code 29959. R. González, N. Calderón, N. Carrejo & O. Saenz. Led light trap in forest canopy. The specimens studied are deposited in the Entomological Museum of the Universidad del Valle (MUSENUV), in Santiago de Cali, Colombia .

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the Huitota indigenous people, distributed in southeastern Colombia and northern Peru.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Euplocania huitota n. sp. Male. 1. Forewing. 2. Hindwing. 3. Front view of head. 4. Left paraproct and epiproct. 5. Phallosome. 6. Hypandrium. Scales in mm.