Triplocania furcatoides, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García, 2017

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2017, New species of Colombian Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae), Zootaxa 4336 (1), pp. 1-113 : 89-93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4336.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024833

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD879B-CF1B-FFFD-FF6A-EABDFB3DFA95

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scientific name

Triplocania furcatoides
status

sp. nov.

Triplocania furcatoides View in CoL n. sp.

( Figs 305–316 View FIGURES 305 – 310 View FIGURES 311 – 316 )

Diagnosis. Closely related to T. furcata New, from which it differs in having the outer processes of the central sclerite of the hypandrium longer and almost straight, and in having the inner processes of the central sclerite of the hypandrium longer and distinctly curved inwards ( Fig. 308 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ); the phallosome, although on the same structural plan as L. furcata , differs from it in details of the endophallic sclerites (compare Fig. 310 View FIGURES 305 – 310 with Fig. 110 View FIGURES 110 – 115 in New, 1972), particularly the posterior pair, straight and divided posteriorly in T. furcatoides ( Fig. 310 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ). Unlike T. furcata (the female of which is described below) the posterior area of the IX sternum has finer longitudinal grooves, coarser in the former, and the proximal heel of v2 +3 is distinctly slender, not stout as in T. furcata (compare Fig. 316 View FIGURES 311 – 316 with Fig. 364 View FIGURES 359 – 364 below).

Male. Color (in 80% ethanol). Body brown. Head dark brown, pattern ( Fig. 307 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ); compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Genae brown. Antennae and maxillary palps brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathotax brown. Thoracic pleura brown, with reddish brown spots. Coxae and trochanters cream; femora, tibiae and tarsi brown. Wings almost hyaline. Forewing smoked proximally ( Fig. 305 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ). Abdomen cream, with irregular subcuticular areas brown; clunium brown; epiproct and paraprocts pale brown, with subcuticular spots yellowish-brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 307 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ): H/MxW: 1.55, H/D: 2.02, IO/MxW: 0.60, MxW/IO: 2.82. Abundant interommatidial setae. Vertex almost in line with the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with five denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.19. Forewings ( Fig. 305 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ): L/W: 2.62. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 4.43, with setae in the membrane; areola postica: la/ha: 2.42, slightly slanted posteriorly. Hindwings ( Fig. 306 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ): l/w: 3.13. Hypandrium ( Fig. 308 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ), central sclerite convex anteriorly, posteriorly with a median, acuminate, posterior process, with two acuminate processes on each side. Lateral sclerites small, unpigmented. Phallosome ( Fig. 310 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ) with side struts independent, V-shaped, widely fused posteriorly to external parameres, distally rounded, sclerotized, with a field of short spines. Anterior endophallic sclerites slender, broadly M-shaped; mesal endophallic sclerite with outer arms slender, curved, inner arms straight, directed posteriorly, narrowing distally; posterior sclerites long, with a short subapical tooth on outer border ( Fig. 310 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ). Paraprocts oval ( Fig. 309 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ), posterior border widely rounded, distally with abundant medium and large setae, one macrosetae next each sensory field, these with 28 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct wide ( Fig. 309 View FIGURES 305 – 310 ), rounded posteriorly, a semi-elliptic protuberance mesally, setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 3500, HW: 2500, F: 862, T: 1425, t1: 625, t2: 55, t3: 100, Mx4: 220, ctt1: 20, f1: 580, f2: 500, f3: 440, IO: 330, D: 420, d: 305, IO/d: 1.1, PO: 0.73.

Female. Color (in 80% ethanol). Body, legs and wings as in the males. Pigmented area of subgenital plate Ushaped, arms wide; IX sternum cream, gonapophyses brown, mottled cream; clunium brown; paraprocts and epiproct pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 313 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ): H/MxW: 1.50; H/D: 2.31, MxW/IO: 2.21, IO/MxW: 0.70. Vertex above the level of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with five denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.43. Forewings ( Fig. 311 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ): L/W: 2.56, pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.91; areola postica la/ha: 2.73. Hindwings ( Fig. 312 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ): l/w: 3.04. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 314 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ) with a median, pointed, posterior process, bearing a setal field. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 316 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ): v1 elongate, tapered distally, acuminate, with microsetae widely distributed in the two distal thirds; v2 +3 wide basally, with slender heel, a mesal protuberance on inner border, a row of four macrosetae on v2; distal process stout, almost straight, distally blunt, with microsetae. Paraprocts ( Fig. 315 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ) broadly triangular, posteriorly rounded, setae as illustrated; sensory fields with 28 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct wide, slightly bilobed anteriorly, posteriorly rounded, with abundant setae on distal half, as illustrated ( Fig. 315 View FIGURES 311 – 316 ).

Measurements. FW: 3650, HW: 2700, Mx4: 243, f1: 650, f2: 520, f3: 470, IO: 420, D: 390, d: 245, IO/d: 1.71, PO: 0.63.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Amazonas . Leticia , San Martín de Amacayacu. Totumo trail, 03º42’42.8”S : 70º2’01.9”W, 77 m. 13–14.VIII.2015. MUSENUV slide code 28630. N. Carrejo, R. González, N. Calderón & O. Saenz. Paratypes: 1 female, Maloca trail, 3º43’43.8”S : 70º18’49.9”W, 93 m. 14–15.VIII.2015. MUSENUV slide code 28631. Same collectors. 7 males, same locality, date and collectors as the holotype GoogleMaps . 11 males, Agua Blanca trail, 3º42’19.0”S : 70º20’26.1” W, 70 m. Same collectors. All in led light trap in forest canopy.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the proximity of this species to T. furcata New.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Ptiloneuridae

Genus

Triplocania

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