Edmockfordia saenzi, Nieto, Julian Alexander Mendivil, Gonzalez Obando, Ranulfo & Garcia Aldrete, Alfonso Neri, 2015

Nieto, Julian Alexander Mendivil, Gonzalez Obando, Ranulfo & Garcia Aldrete, Alfonso Neri, 2015, Two new species of Edmockfordia Garcia Aldrete (Psocodea, ' Psocoptera', Epipsocidae), from Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and description of the female E. chiquibulensis Garcia Aldrete, ZooKeys 503, pp. 45-54 : 46-50

Taxon classification Animalia Psocodea Epipsocidae

Edmockfordia saenzi sp. n. Figures 6-10

Type locality.

COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Buenaventura. Vereda El Salto. Pericos Natural Reserve, 350 m., 3°56'N, 76°47'W.

Type material.

Holotype male, 28-29.III.2013. Light trap, O. Saenz, N. Calderón. Deposited in the Entomology Museum, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia (MUSENUV, slide code No. 25774).

Paratypes.

2 male, COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Buenaventura. Vereda El Danubio, 340 m., 3°36'58.8"N, 76°53'59.5"W. 28-29.VIII.2014. Light trap. R. González, O. Saenz, N. Calderón. Paratypes deposited in the Entomology Museum, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia (MUSENUV, slide code No. 26135-26136).

Etymology.

We take pleasure to dedicate this species to Oscar Saenz Manchola, one of its collectors, a graduate student at the Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

Diagnosis.

Differing from Edmockfordia calderonae and from Edmockfordia chiquibulensis in having the phallosome aedeagal arch apically rhomboid, in having the external parameres extremely long, falcate, reaching the level of the aedeagal apex, and in having the postero-lateral corners of the epiproct rounded, protuberant.

Color

(in 80% ethanol). Body mostly brown, with creamy areas, as indicated below, pronotum and propleura brown; meso- and metanotal lobes creamy, bordered with brown, upper halves of meso- and metapleura brown, lower halves creamy. Abdomen creamy. Head (Fig. 7), with a broad, transverse, dark brown band between compound eyes, enclosing the ocellar group; vertex creamy; genae proximally creamy, distally brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; postclypeus brown, anteclypeus brown in the center, creamy on the sides; labrum creamy. Antennae with scape and pedicel brown, flagella pale brown. Maxillary palpomeres 1-4 brown. Legs: coxae and trochanters creamy; femora mostly creamy, with a brown spot on proximal and distal ends; tibiae and tarsi pale brown. Forewings hyaline, pterostigma with a brown spot at the apex, and a brown band proximally, veins pale brown, each with a brown spot distally, at wing margin, a brown spot at confluence of Cu2 and A. Hindwings hyaline, veins pale brown, each with a brown spot distally, at wing margin. Clunium brown, epiproct pale brown, with sides dark brown; paraprocts pale brown, hypandrium almost unpigmented.

Morphology.

As in diagnosis, plus the following: outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with seven denticles; compound eyes with inter-ommatidial setae, mostly dorsally. Forewings (Fig. 6) asymmetric, pterostigma elongate, rounded, widest in the middle; Rs two branched; M dichotomously forked, resulting in four branches, right wing with M4 incompletely forked; areola postica low, apically rounded; left wing with open areola postica, vein Cu1A arising from M. Hindwings (Fig. 6) symmetric: Rs of two branches, M simple. Coxae of hind leg without Pearman organ, trochanters of all legs dorsally with two long setae; tarsi of front legs without ctenidobothria, t1 of mid legs with 11 ctenidobothria, t2 without ctenidobothria. Hypandrium (Fig. 9), symmetric, setose, with posterior border obtusely concave. Phallosome (Fig. 10): open anteriorly, V-shaped, side struts broad, dilated proximally and curved outwards. Paraprocts (Fig. 8): elongate, ovoid, with short setae, and a field of microsetae along the inner border, sensory fields with 30-31 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct (Fig. 8): broad, trapeziform, with field of short setae and a field of microsetae along posterior border; a field of papillae mesally, next to posterior border.

Remarks.

Of the two paratypes for this species, one of them presents a forewing vein pattern with a four branched M, as described for the genus, however, a second specimen present the distal third of the forewing reticulated (Fig. 11) (e. g. R4+5 and M1 connected by a cross vein, R4+5 distally forked, a vein arising from the middle of R4+5 forked at wing margin, with the second branch fused at wing margin with M1, forming a closed cell, M1 absent, and M3 branched, with the branch near the areola postica incomplete.

Measurements.

FW: 2700, HW: 2025, F: 675, T: 1150, t1: 500, t2: 140, ctt1: 26, f1: 540, f2: 470, IO: 280, D: 180, d: 280, IO/d: 1, PO: 1.5.