Triplocania asisensis, 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 : 20-22

Triplocania asisensis n. sp. Male

( Figs 39–44 )

Diagnosis. Wings almost hyaline. Forewing setae issuing from brown areola along veins. Related to T. ecuatoriana Silva Neto et al. , and T. ecuatorianaoides Silva Neto et al. , from which it differs in details of the hypandrium and phallosome endophallic sclerites (compare Figs 43 and 44 in this work, with Figs 34–35 and 41–42 in Silva Neto et al. (2016).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Compound eyes brown ochre; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pale brown, vertex creamy; front with a slender diagonal band from each compound eye to epistomal sulcus, above the level of the antennal fossae; genae with wide, diagonal brown ochre band from lower margin of compound eyes to lower epistomal sulcus ( Fig. 41 ). Clypeus, labrum and part of the genae pale brown; antennae pale brown; maxillary palps pale brown, Mx4 brown. Thorax creamy, with pale brown spots on tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax; pleura cream, with small pale brown spots. Tibiae and tarsi pale brown; coxae, trochanters and femora cream. Forewings almost hyaline, pterostigma pale brown, with a large, hyaline median area; a brown spot on vein ends ( Fig 39 ). Hindwings hyaline. Abdomen creamy, with few and small pale brown subcuticular spots.

Morphology. Head ( Fig. 41 ): H/MxW: 1.43; H/D: 2.65; IO/MxW: 0.74, MxW/IO: 1.93. Vertex slightly emarginate, slightly above the level of the compound eyes; outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with four broad denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.46. Forewings ( Fig. 39 ): L/W: 2.42, pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.68; areola postica high, la/ha: 1.73. Hindwings ( Fig. 40 ): l/w: 2.87. Central sclerite of the hypandrium convex anteriorly; posterior border straight, with long posterior process in the middle, deeply obtusely concave distally ( Fig. 43 ); side sclerites small, elongate, setose (not figured). Phallosome V- shaped anteriorly, with slender side struts not fused basally; external parameres broad, membranous, distally rounded, bearing pores ( Fig. 44 ); anterior endophallic sclerites small, transverse, close together in the middle, mesal pair: each arm T-spaed, with a median stout process flanked by smaller slender processes formed by two lateral sclerites; posterior pair proximally slender, acuminate, wider in the middle, distally curved inwards, with the border denticulate ( Fig. 44 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 42 ), broad, oval, with medium and short setae on posterior third; with macrosetae near sensory fields and in apical third; sensory fields with 18 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct wide, almost straight anteriorly, widely rounded posteriorly ( Fig. 42 ), with setal field as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 3020, HW: 2150, F: 762, T: 1240, t1: 557, t2: 50, t3: 100, Mx4: 211, ctt1: 20, f1: 450, f2: 350, f3: 300, IO: 402, D: 296, d: 207, IO/d: 1.94, PO: 0.70.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Putumayo. Puerto Asís, Huitoto trail, 0°23’21.01”N : 76°31’41.87’’W, 264 m. 23.X.2014, MUSENUV slide code 26178. J. Panche. Led light trap in forest canopy.

Etymology. The specific name refers to Puerto Asís, Putumayo, Colombia.

Figures

FIGURES 39 – 44. Triplocania asisensis n. sp. Male. 39. Forewing. 40. Hindwing. 41. Front view of head. 42. Paraprocts and epiproct. 43. Hypandrium. 44. Phallosome. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 33 – 38. Triplocania arhuaca n. sp. Female. 33. Forewing. 34. Hindwing. 35. Front view of head. 36. Paraprocts and epiproct. 37. Subgenital plate. 38. Ninth sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.