Euplocania wilsoni, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & Aldrete, 2022

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García, 2022, Changes in the genus Euplocania (Psocodea: Ptiloneuridae): invalidation of the species group Marginata and establishment of the species group Uariniensis, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 5129 (1), pp. 129-136 : 131-135

Euplocania wilsoni n. sp. Male

( Figs 7–11 )

Diagnosis. Related to E. atlantica Silva-Neto , from which it differs by the shape of the mesal endophallic sclerite, by the shape of the apical processes of the lateral endophallic sclerites ( Fig. 11 ) and by the posterior processes of the central sclerite of the hypandrium ( Fig. 10 ).

Color (in parts mounted on slide). Head brown, with pattern of dark spots like a mask; dark brown compounds eyes; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; anteclypeus and clypeus dark brown; genae dark brown. Forewings as in group diagnosis. Hypandrium brown. Phallosome brown, endophallic sclerites dark brown. Epiproct and paraprocts light brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head: H/MxW: 1.48; compound eyes large, H/D: 2.11; IO/ MxW: 0.67. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with seven denticles. Forewings: pterostigma: lp/wp: 6.11. Central sclerite of the hypandrium, as in diagnosis of the group, anteriorly slightly convex; basal section wider than long, posterolateral angle with short rounded processes, with several macrosetae ( Fig. 10 ). Phallosome: side struts U-shaped; external parameres narrow, with pores; anterior pair of endophallic sclerites transverse, with short process apically, ends almost converging mesally ( Fig. 11 ); lateral pair laminar, basally partially overlapping anterior sclerites, with concave laminar and semioval process apically, clearly widened; mesal sclerite inverted U-shaped, postero-mesal sclerites elongate, narrow, sinuous, distally acuminate, each connected to the external parameres ( Fig. 11 ). Paraprocts ovoid, with a dense field of setae on distal area, an apically spatulate macrosetae near the inner margin ( Fig. 9 ); sensory fields with 32 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct semioval ( Fig. 9 ), with meso-anterior field of microspines on basal area and triangular bulge, bearing two setae, two lateral macrosetae and small scattered setae as illustrated.

Measurements. IO: 530, D: 560, d: 390, IO/d: 1.36, PO: 0.70.

Material studied. Holotype male. BRAZIL. Pará, Marabá. Serra Norte. XI.1982. Light trap. M. Miles, ( INPA).

Etymology. This species is dedicated, in memoriam, to Edward Osborne Wilson, widely recognized worldwide, the founder of sociobiology and the father of biodiversity.

Figures

FIGURES 7–11. Euplocania wilsoni n. sp. Male. 7. Forewing. 8. Front view of head. 9. Epiproct and right paraproct. 10. Hypandrium. 11. Phallosome. Scales in mm.