Triplocania lapayaensis, 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 : 62

Triplocania lapayaensis n. sp. Female

( Figs 200–205 )

Diagnosis. Forewings deeply pigmented proximally, pterostigma wider in the middle, with brown bands proximally and distally, veins with large brown spot at wing margin ( Fig. 200 ). Pigmented area of subgenital plate broad, V-shaped. Ninth sternum concave anteriorly in the middle ( Fig. 205 ). Distal process about 0.75 as long as v2 +3.

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body dark brown. Compound eyes ochre; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern ( Fig. 205 ), postclypeus almost totally dark brown; postclypeus, anteclypeus and labrum dark brown; genae and postgenae dark brown; antennae brown, flagellomeres distally cream. Maxillary palps brown, Mx2 and Mx3 with distal ochre ring. Thorax dark brown. Tibiae and tarsi brown, coxae, trochanters and femora cream. Forewings ( Fig. 200 ). Hindwings with proximal brown area, veins ending in brown spots ( Fig. 201 ). Abdomen cream, with small, subcuticular pale brown spots. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 204 ). Ninth sternum ( Fig. 205 ). Epiproct and paraprocts brown, with subcuticular brown spots.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 202 : H/MxW: 1.40; H/D: 2.45, IO/MxW: 0.64, MxW/IO: 2.35. Vertex slightly emarginate, almost at the same level of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.60. Forewings ( Fig. 200 ): L/W: 2.50, pterostigma: lp/wp: 2.62; areola postica high, rounded apically, la/ha: 1.54. Hindwings ( Fig. 201 ): l/w: 3.21. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 204 ) triangular, with dense field of medium sized and long setae. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 205 ): v1 elongated, slender, acuminate; v2 +3 proximally wide, narrowing distally, with row of three setae on v2; distal process short, straight, with microsetae. Ninth sternum ( Fig. 205 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 203 ), broad, elongate, with setae as illustrated; sensory fields with 14 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct wide anteriorly, straight, rounded posteriorly ( Fig. 203 ) with setal field as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 2825, HW: 2325, F: 700, T: 1192, t1: 512, t2: 57, t3: 100, Mx4: 200, ctt1: 21, f1: 375, f2: 282, f3: 250, IO: 330, D: 292, d: 207, IO/d: 1.59, PO: 0.70.

Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Putumayo. National Natural Park La Paya, Bocana Mamasaya , 0º06’S: 74º58’W, 370 m, 23.IX.2001. D. Campos. Malaise trap. MAH .

Etymology. The specific name refers to the National Natural Park La Paya, in Puerto Leguizamo, Putumayo, Colombia.

Figures

FIGURES 200 – 205. Triplocania lapayaensis n. sp. Female. 200. Forewing. 201. Hindwing. 202. Front view of head. 203. Paraprocts and epiproct. 204. Subgenital plate. 205. Ninth sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.