Clinocaecilius edwardsi, Schmidt & New, 2008

Schmidt, Evan R. & New, Timothy R., 2008, The Psocoptera (Insecta) of Tasmania, Australia, Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65, pp. 71-152 : 88

Clinocaecilius edwardsi sp. nov.

Figures 26–29

Material examined. Holotype: Tasmania, Ferntree , in rolled bark, 19 Oct 1962. 5 paratypes: same data as holotype ( V. V. Hickman) . Additional material (1): Tunbridge, Steppes Rd, Bedfordia salicina , 13 Nov 1986.

Description of male. Coloration (after ca 30 years in alcohol). Head pale brown with suggestion of darker markings as follows: dorsal to eyes, across back of vertex and each side of median epicranial suture; central patch on frons; postclypeal striae. Ocelli pale, tubercle dark brown. Eyes greyish-black. Fore wing (fig. 26) and hind wing (fig. 27) with faint brown tinge, veins brown. Thorax brown, legs and abdomen pale brown.

Morphology. IO:D = 2.7. Ocelli large, on prominent tubercle. Median epicranial suture distinct. Clypeal shelf broad. Labrum: stylets small, spiculate; internal sclerotisation not distinct; sensilla 5 in total. Lacinia apically broad, preapically expanded on one side, apical margin with denticles. Setae on fore wing (fig. 26) veins in single rank, short, slanting distally; vein cu 2 glabrous; pterostigma elongate; areola postica elongated, narrow; junction of veins rs and m variable from fusion for a short length, meeting at a point or joined by short cross-vein. Mesothoracic precoxal suture absent, sterna very broad. One ventral abdominal adhesive vesicle present. Epiproct triangular, with short setae in apical half. Paraproct with oval field of about 22 trichobothria. Hypandrium (fig. 28, paratype) setose, with 2 large median preapical setae. Phallosome (fig. 29) rounded anteriorly, aedeagus bluntly pointed, endophallic lobe spiculate.

Dimensions. B 2.3, FW 3.25, HW 2.51, F 0.61, T 0.98, t

1

0.253, t

2

0.095, rt 2.7:1, ct 17,0, f

1

0.474, f

2

0.355.

Female. Unknown.

Remarks. The genitalia of this species grossly resemble those of Bassocaecilius rawlinsoni in the shape of the phallosome and by the absence of papillae on the epiproct and paraproct. Clinocaecilius edwardsi differs, however, by the hypandrium possessing a pair of large median preapical setae.

Etymology. Named for Barry A. B. Edwards, in recognition of his pioneering synopsis of the Tasmanian Psocoptera .

Maoripsocini Mockford

Figures

Figures 26-29. Clinocaecilius edwardsi. Male: 26, fore wing; 27, hind wing; 28, hypandrium; 29, phallosome. Figures 28 and 29 to common scale.