Triplocania cervantesi García Aldrete, 1999

Silva-Neto, Alberto Moreira da, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Rafael, José Albertino, 2018, Triplocania Roesler: a new species, redescriptions, description of the female of Triplocania spinosa Mockford, and revalidation of the original combination of Belicania cervantesi (García Aldrete) (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-11 : 2

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.21
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4613824
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scientific name	Triplocania cervantesi García Aldrete
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Triplocania cervantesi García Aldrete View in CoL rev. comb.

Triplocania cervantesi García Aldrete, 1999: 155 View in CoL , figs. 21-29; Lienhard & Smithers, 2002 (catalog); Casasola González, 2006: 29 (phylogeny).

Belicania cervantesi (García Aldrete), 2006: 4 View in CoL , figs. 10-18 (new combination); Silva-Neto & García Aldrete, 2015: 168 (Taxonomy); Silva-Neto, García Aldrete & Rafael, 2016b: 73 (phylogeny).

Diagnosis: As described by García Aldrete (1999).

Male: As described by García Aldrete (1999).

Female: As described by García Aldrete (1999).

Material examined: Holotype: ♂ (Natural History Museum of London). Belize. Cayo District, Chiquibul Forest Reserve. Las Cuevas. 03-06.IV.1995. Malaise trap 14. Howe & T. King. Paratypes: 2 ♀ (NHM), same data as the holotype, except: 1 ♀. Las Cuevas. 23-26.I.1995, and 1 ♀ Las Cuevas. 13-16.IX.1994.

Comments: García Aldrete (1999) described T. cervantesi on basis of three male specimens and nine female specimens. Later García Aldrete (2006) based mostly on some peculiar characteristics of the hypandrium (detailed above in the introduction), created for it the monotypic genus Belicania . In 2006 there were only 25 described species of Triplocania . With the huge increase in the diversity of Triplocania in this decade and with the description of Triplocania species with new morphological unprecedented characteristics, as the hypandria of T. bravoi Silva-Neto, Rafael & García Aldrete , T. lamasi Silva-Neto, Rafael & García Aldrete , T. manueli Silva-Neto, García Aldrete & Rafael and numerous other characteristics of other Triplocania species described recently, put in doubt the new combination proposed by García Aldrete in 2006. Based on the above information, Belicania is being synonymized with Triplocania .