Lichenomima huilensis, González-Obando & Calderón-Martínez & Carrejo-Gironza, 2023

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Calderón-Martínez, Nadia R. & Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy S., 2023, New species of Myopsocidae (Insecta: Psocodea: “ Psocoptera ”) from Colombia, Zootaxa 5377 (1), pp. 1-61 : 14-17

Lichenomima huilensis n. sp.

( Figs 25–30 )

Diagnosis. Unlike other Lichenomima species, it presents hypandrium and phallosome different. The hypandrium is formed by two short, widened lobes, separated by a medial membranous area ( Fig. 29 ). Phallosome widely enlarged, with widened phallobase, strongly curved inward and with medial sclerotization ( Fig. 30 ), external parameres elongated and with tooth-like processes on their inner margin. On the other hand, the male has small compound eyes and widely separated ( Fig. 27 ), similarly as found in L. occidentalis n. sp. described below.

Male. Color. Head ( Fig. 27 ) brown, vertex, frons, genae and labrum darker; compound eyes dark brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Antenna pale brown; maxillary palps brown. Thorax brown, with cream spots. Legs pale brown. Forewings brown ( Fig. 25 ) with hyaline spots, especially on cells M1, M2 and M3 basally and on a large area of the areola postica; brown, alar margin and veins punctate, except CuP, pterostigma basally and apically with brown spot, centrally hyaline. Hindwings ( Fig. 26 ) smoked, brown veins, dotted costal margin. Abdomen creamy to brown, clunium, hypandrium ( Fig. 29 ) and phallosome brown ( Fig. 30 ), epiproct and paraprocts brown to pale brown ( Fig. 28 ).

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 27 ): H/MxW: 1.13; compound eyes relatively small and widely separated, H/D: 2.56; IO/MxW: 0.72. Vertex straight and above the upper edge of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips little wide, with four denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.09. Forewings ( Fig. 25 ): L/W: 2.73. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.56, areola postica wider than tall, apically angled: al/ah: 1.50. Hindwings ( Fig. 26 ): l/w: 2.80. Hypandrium much wider than long, membranous apically and medially ( Fig. 29 ), with setae and macrosetae. Phallosome with membranous endophallus ( Fig. 30 ). Paraprocts elongated, with two apical processes directed inward ( Fig. 28 ), with field of setae and macrosetae on distal area; sensory fields with 36 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 28 ) subtrapezoidal, more broadened basally, anterior margin with wide medial emargination, basal field with protrusion well sclerotized, setae and macrosetae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 5600, HW: 3925, F: 1232.5, T: 2025, t1: 650, t2: 90, t3: 120, ctt1: 24, f1: 1225, f2: 1325, f3: 1275, f4: 925, f5: 507.5, f6: 325, f7: 250, f8: 200, f9: 170, f10: 157.5, f11: 72.5, Mx4: 240, IO: 590, d: 260, D: 360, IO/d: 2.27, PO: 0.72.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Huila, La Mensura , 1°43’14.7’’N: 76° 07’ 7.08’’ W. 1753 m. 29.ix.2019. MUSENUV slide code: 31300 . N. Vargas & J. S. Cañas. Led light trap in forest canopy.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the department of Huila ( Colombia), where the holotype was found.

Figures

FIGURES 25–30. Lichenomima huilensis n. sp. Male. 25. Forewing. 26. Hindwing. 27. Head (frontal view). 28. Paraproct and epiproct. 29. Hypandrium. 30. Phallosome. Scales in mm.