Triplocania molanoi, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García, 2021

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2021, New species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae) from Colombia and Peru, Zootaxa 5080 (1), pp. 1-63 : 35-38

Triplocania molanoi n. sp. Male

( Figs 97–102 )

Diagnosis. It belongs in species group anchicayaensis , of Subgroup MPB2A (see Classification below). It is related to T. mocoaensis González, Carrejo & García Aldrete , from which it differs in having the central sclerite of the hypandrium strongly convex anteriorly ( Fig. 101 ), and in the morphology of the anterior, mesal and posterior endophallic sclerites (compare Fig. 101 in this work, with Fig. 285 in González-Obando, Carrejo & García Aldrete, 2017).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Head pale brown, with dark brown spots pattern ( Fig. 99 ). Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; antennae pale brown, flagellomeres with cream apices; maxillary palps pale brown, Mx4 darker distally. Thorax pale brown, with light brown spots on tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax; pleurae light brown, with small ochre spots. Coxae, trochanters and femora light brown, tibiae and tarsi pale brown. Forewings opaque, pterostigma little pigmented, with a small pale brown band distally; veins pale brown, a pale brown spot on vein ends ( Fig. 97 ). Hindwings hyaline, veins pale brown. Abdomen creamy, with small ochre spots; hypandrium, paraprocts and epiproct pale brown; endophallic sclerites dark brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 99 ): H/MxW: 1.63; H/D: 2.29; IO/MxW: 0.58. Vertex slightly emarginate, slightly below the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with four wide denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.15. Forewings ( Fig. 97 ): L/W: 2.59. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 5.26. R 4+5 longer than Rs after transverse vein r-m. Areola postica triangular: la/ha: 2.32, CuA 1 straight distally. Hindwings ( Fig. 98 ): l/p: 2.98. Hypandrium ( Fig. 101 ) of three sclerites, central sclerite with stout lateral processes slightly curved outward, distally rounded, widely separated by a U-shaped concavity. Phallosome ( Fig. 102 ), side struts Yshaped, anterior pair of endophallic sclerites asymmetric, stout, wider proximally; lateral pair wider in the middle, mesal sclerite convex anteriorly, extended laterally, with median posterior process long, distally rounded; posterior sclerites transverse, long, slender, with four denticles along posterior border. Paraprocts oval, with abundant setae and macrosetae on apical third; sensory fields with 20 trichobothria on basal rosettes ( Fig. 100 ). Epiproct ( Fig. 100 ) wide, broadly rounded posteriorly, setae and macrosetae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 4475, HW: 3125, F: 1225, T: 2012, t1: 900, t2: 90, t3: 170, ctt1: 28, f1: 862, f2: 880, f3: 725, f4: 612, f5: 425, f6: 400, f7: 300, f8: 250, f9: 192, f10: 175, f11: 192, Mx4: 300, IO: 387, d: 360, D: 474, IO/d: 1.07, PO: 0.76.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Caquetá. Belén de Los Andaquíes, Resguardo Indígena La Esperanza , 01°36’19.18’’N: 75°56’12.46’’ W, 844 m. 3–4.III.2017. J. Panche. Led light trap in forest canopy. MUSENUV slide code 29945.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the Colombian writer Alfredo Molano.

Figures

FIGURES 97–102. Triplocania molanoi n. sp. Male. 97. Forewing. 98. Hindwing. 99. Front view of head. 100. Epiproct and right paraproct. 101. Hypandrium. 102. Phallosome. Scales in mm.