Euplocania teslai, 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 : 114

Euplocania teslai n. sp. Male

( Figs 31–36 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in species group cerata . By the shape of the hypandrium, it is related to E. shuar n. sp. and E. nukak n. sp. It differs from the first one by having posterior endophallic sclerites; it differs from the latter in having the anterior endophallic sclerites very slender.

Color (of parts mounted on slide). Head ( Fig. 33 ) pale brown, with brown pattern on frontal area and genae; compounds eyes black; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; genae dark brown with clear transverse band, clypeus dark brown; maxillary palps pale brown, Mx1 paler than the other palpomeres. Forewings ( Fig. 31 ) hyaline, veins brown, with brown spots at veins ends, cells cu1 and cu2 with brown areas; pterostigma with proximal and distal brown bands. Hindwings ( Fig. 32 ) hyaline, veins brown. Hypandrium brown, anteriorly and laterally darker. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown.

Morphology. Head: H/MxW: 3.49; compound eyes medium-sized, H/D: 3.0; IO/MxW: 0.2. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with six denticles. Forewings: L/W: 2.37. Pterostigma oval: lp/wp: 1.48, areola postica tall, oval, apically rounded: al/ah: 1.48. Hypandrium ( Fig. 36 ), median area broad, setose as illustrated, with a broad concavity posteriorly, posterior processes broad, distally rounded, each bearing a large macroseta apically. Phallosome ( Fig. 35 ), side struts V-shaped, external parameres distally wide, bearing pores; three pairs of endophallic sclerites, anterior pair slender, curved and converging on the longitudinal midline, externally connected to the lateral sclerites, broadly L-shaped; mesal sclerites pointed, widening posteriorly, with an elongate, distally acuminate process on outer corner; posterior sclerites slender, transverse, pointed at both ends. Paraprocts ( Fig. 34 ) ovoid, with a field of setae posteriorly, with several macrosetae as illustrated, two spatulate; sensory fields with 21 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct semioval, convex posteriorly, with microsetae and setae as illustrated ( Fig. 34 ).

Measurements (in microns). FW: 2900, HW: 2075, F: 775, T: 1300, t1: 560, t2: 80, t3: 110, ctt1: 19, f1: 410, Mx4: 200, IO: 400, D: 305, d: 210, IO/d: 1.9, PO: 0.69.

Material studied. Holotype male. ECUADOR. Napo. Waorani Ethnic Reserve. 1 km S Onkone Gare Camp. Transect Ent., 0°39’10’’S: 76°26’00’’W, 220 m., 9.II.1995. T. L. Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest. The holotype will be deposited in the Sección de Entomología, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas , Escuela Politécnica Nacional, in Quito, Ecuador.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Nikola Tesla, an engineer that discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of the alternating electric current.

Figures

FIGURES 31–36. Euplocania teslai n. sp. Male. 31. Forewing. 32. Hindwing. 33. Front view of head. 34. Epiproct and right paraproct. 35. Phallosome. 36. Hypandrium. Scales in mm.