Triplocania sarmaca, 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 : 82-83

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4336.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA65E14F-102F-4FF1-B8D5-D7E0C9126878

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024819

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD879B-CF12-FFF3-FF6A-EA0DFCBFF84B

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Plazi

scientific name

Triplocania sarmaca
status

sp. nov.

Triplocania sarmaca View in CoL n. sp. Female

( Figs 277–280 View FIGURES 277 – 280 )

Diagnosis. Ninth sternum convex anteriorly, broadly trapeziform, with a triangular pigmented area posteriorly, on each side of the longitudinal midline ( Fig. 280 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern ( Fig. 279 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ). Antennae pale brown. Thorax pale brown, tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax with cream spots. Tibiae and tarsi pale brown, coxae, trochanters and femora cream; coxae with pale brown spots on base and apex; femora proximally and distally with pale brown spots. Forewings almost hyaline, with pale brown bands basally and distally on pterostigma; a pale brown submarginal band from R2+3 to Cu1a, veins with brown spot at wing margin ( Fig. 277 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ). Abdomen cream, with subcuticular brown spots. Subgenital plate pale brown, pigmented area dark brown. IX sternum pale brown; gonapophyses brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 279 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ): H/MxW: 1.39. H/D: 2.59, IO/MxW: 0.71, MxW/IO: 1.95. Vertex straight , slightly above the level of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with four to five broad denticles. Forewings ( Fig. 277 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ): L/W: 2.53, pterostigma: lp/wp: 4.14; areola postica high, la/ ha: 1.71, distal part of Cu 1a almost straight. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 278 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ) wide, with sides converging to round apex. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 280 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ): v1 elongate, about 0.9 the length of v2 +3, tapered, with abundant short setae distally ; v2 +3 wider anteriorly, with short proximal heel; eight macrosetae, one more anteriorly, on v2; distal process sinuous, acuminate, with microsetae. IX sternum ( Fig. 280 View FIGURES 277 – 280 ).

Measurements. FW: 3450, F: 900, T: 1550, f1: 575, IO: 462.5, D: 350, d: 250, IO/d: 1.85, PO: 0.71. Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Putumayo. National Natural Park La Paya, Viviano Cocha trail, 0º08’S: 74º57’W, 210 m, 26–29.I.2003. C. Sarmiento and M. Macanilla. Malaise trap. MAH. Etymology. The specific epithet, a noun in apposition, is an artificial word formed with the roots of the last names of its collectors, to whom the species is dedicated.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Ptiloneuridae

Genus

Triplocania

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