Euplocania waorani, 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 : 117

Euplocania waorani n. sp. Male

( Figs 43–47 )

Diagnosis. This species is related to species group bonaverensis of González, García Aldrete, Carrejo & Panche (2018), but differing from it by not having the setae of the forewing veins inserted in brown areolae, by having the lateral processes of the hypandrium large, triangular, with only the apices bent posteriorly, and by the shape of the three pairs of endophallic sclerites, mesal pair C-shaped, positioned in opposite directions, overlapping medially, each basally widened, mesal sclerite process (msp) pointed apically and curved outward ( Fig. 46 ), anterior pair long, slender, sinuous, slightly dilated at the anterior ends, posteriorly reaching the ends of the external parameres; lateral pair dilated anteriorly, slender, curved inward, the apices meeting in the middle. A new species group is proposed for this species, the waorani group (see discussion below).

Color (of parts mounted on slide). Legs pale brown, coxae and femora brown. Forewings ( Fig. 43 ), hyaline, veins brown, with brown spots at veins ends, cells cu1 and cu2 with small brown spots. Hindwings ( Fig. 44 ) hyaline, veins brown. Hypandrium brown, darker on postero-lateral borders and antero-median process. Epiproct and paraprocts brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head missing. Forewings: L/W: 2.44. Pterostigma wider in the middle, semi-oval: lp/wp: 1.62, areola postica tall, apex rounded: al/ah: 1.41. M four branched, M 4 forked. Hypandrium ( Fig. 47 ) of a single sclerite, anteriorly projected in the middle, mesal processes of the central area with apices directed posteriorly, median posterior processes short, slender, separated by a deep incision, apices bent outward, bearing a macroseta. Phallosome ( Fig. 46 ), side struts V-shaped; with three pairs of endophallic sclerites (see diagnosis), posterior endophallic sclerites absent. Paraprocts ( Fig. 45 ) ovoid, with setae and macrosetae as illustrated, two spatulate; sensory fields with 20 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 45 ) semioval, posteriorly convex, with three mesal setae next to the anterior border, a pair of lateral macrosetae and numerous microsetae on posterior border.

Measurements (in microns). FW: 2750, HW: 2000, F: 725, T: 1175, t1: 510, t2: 70, t3: 100, ctt1: 20.

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 the Waorani indigenous people, from Amazonian Ecuador.

Figures

FIGURES 43–47. Euplocania waorani n. sp. Male. 43. Forewing. 44. Hindwing. 45. Epiproct and right paraproct. 46. Phallosome. 47. Hypandrium. Scales in mm.