Triplocania mariacarmenae, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García, 2017

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2017, New species of Colombian Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae), Zootaxa 4336 (1), pp. 1-113 : 66-68

Triplocania mariacarmenae n. sp. Male

( Figs 218–223 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in the species assemblage that includes T. calima n. sp., T. felidiaensis n. sp., and T. humboldtiana n. sp. It differs from them in the shape of the central sclerite of the hypandrium ( Fig. 222 ) and phallosome ( Fig. 223 ). The phallosome has the anterior pair of endophallic sclerites transverse; the mesal sclerite is of three arms, the lateral ones stout, with mesal processes in the inner borders, crossing distally, acuminate; the median arm is stout, distally forked, with both arms acuminate, one straight and the other curved, bearing an anteapical denticle on the inner border; the posterior sclerites are long, slender, distally acuminate, asymmetric, the left one bearing a proximal, rugose protuberance on inner border ( Fig. 223 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale cream, with pale brown and dark spots. Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head ( Fig. 220 ), with short and narrow dark brown bands from the inner border of each compound eye to the epistomal sulcus. Vertex, front, clypeus and labrum brown; vertex and postclypeus with dark brown spots. Genae with dark brown areas. Postgenae cream. Antennae: scape and pedicel pale brown; flagella pale cream. Palpomeres pale brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown. Thoracic pleura cream, except the brown ochre mesopleura and part of the metapleura. Legs: trochanters, femora and tibiae pale cream; fore- and hind- coxae with ochre spots; mid coxae brown; tarsi 1 pale cream; tarsi 2–3 brown. Forewings with pterostigma yellowish, with brown spots, a yellowish brown marginal band, from pterostigma to R4+5, from there on it turns brown, and continues to A1. Hindwings with marginal pale brown band, from R4+5 to two thirds of cell m, and from Cu1 to A1. Abdomen pale cream, with brown irregular spots. Clunium and hypandrium dark brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 220 ): H/MxW: 1.30; compound eyes: H/D: 2.55, IO/MxW: 0.83, MxW/IO: 1.78. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with eight denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.5; Mx4/Mx3: 2.89. Forewings ( Fig. 218 ), membrane of pterostigma and marginal band with setae: L/W: 2.51, pterostigma elongate: lp/ wp: 5.77; areola postica high, la/ha: 1.76, Cu1a slightly concave distally. Hindwing ( Fig. 219 ): l/w: 2.76. Hypandrium with side sclerites semi-elliptic, larger than the central one ( Fig. 222 ). Central sclerite with sides converging to round anterior blunt apex; posterior projection with two distal sheets, the left one bulged before the apex. Phallosome ( Fig. 223 ). Paraprocts ( Figure 221 ) elongate, broad, rounded posteriorly; sensory fields with 34 trichobothria on basal rosettes, setae as illustrated. Epiproct ( Fig. 221 ) wide, anteriorly convex, posteriorly broadly pointed, with setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 6600, HW: 4625, F: 1525, T: 2725, t1: 937, t2: 150, t3: 190, Mx4: 375, ctt1: 26, f1: 1175, f2: 1175, f3: 1037.5, f4: 825, IO: 740, D: 470, d: 315, IO/d: 2.35, PO: 0.67.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Caldas. Villa María, La Florida trail, Hacienda El Portal de los Caballos , 05º01’6.7’’N : 75º27’34.5’’W, 2085 m, 20.VII.2013, MUSENUV slide code 28615. M. C. Zúñiga, R. J. Cardozo-Zúñiga & L. P. Giraldo. Light trap.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to its collector, the biologist María del Carmen Zúñiga, who donated this specimen for study, and in recognition to her studies on Colombian Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera.

Figures

FIGURES 218 – 223. Triplocania mariacarmenae n. sp. Male. 218. Forewing. 219. Hindwing. 220. Front view of head. 221. Paraprocts and epiproct. 222. Hypandrium. 223. Phallosome. Scales in mm.