Triplocania caribe, 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 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4336.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA65E14F-102F-4FF1-B8D5-D7E0C9126878
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024765
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD879B-CF67-FF85-FF6A-EC30FCD7F871
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Triplocania caribe
status	sp. nov.

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Triplocania caribe View in CoL n. sp. Female

( Figs 105–109 View FIGURES 105 – 109 )

Diagnosis. Subgenital plate with wide, central unpigmented area; pigmented area broadly U-shaped ( Fig. 108 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ). Ninth sternum wider anteriorly, slightly concave in the middle, narrower posteriorly, deeply concave in the middle. A mesal, transverse, bow-shaped pigmented band, and one small pigmented area posteriorly, on each side of the longitudinal midline ( Fig. 109 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body brown. Compound eyes ochre; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern ( Fig. 107 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ); vertex cream; front with brown crossbands between the inner border of the compound eyes, the uppermost irregular, above the ocelli, the lower one touching the ocellar group, each half with a band to the epistomal sulcus; postclypeus with irregular, brown V-shaped area; anteclypeus and labrum brown; genae dark brown; antennae with scape and pedicel pale brown. Pronotum cream, meso- and metanotum brown, with pale areas; thoracic pleurae brown, lower metepimeron and sternum cream. Legs pale brown, tibiae and tarsi darker. Forewings almost hyaline, with pale brown spots proximally, pterostigma with proximal and distal brown bands; distal third lost. Hindwings missing. Abdomen cream, with ochre subcuticular spots on tergites and sternites. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown, with dark brown subcuticular spots.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 107 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ): H/MxW: 1.57; H/D: 2.65, IO/MxW: 0.63, MxW/IO: 2.37. Vertex slightly emarginate, slightly below the level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Forewings ( Fig. 105 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ): lp/wp: 6.44. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 108 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ), wide, triangular, with broadly rounded posterior border, with dense field of medium-sized setae. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 109 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ): v1 elongate, slender, acuminate; v2 +3 with almost parallel sides; a row of 14 setae on v2, two distinctly longer than the others; distal process long, acuminate, with abundant microsetae. Paraprocts broad, oval ( Fig. 106 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ), widely rounded posteriorly, with setal field on distal half; sensory fields with 26 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct triangular ( Fig. 106 View FIGURES 105 – 109 ) almost as long as wide, anterior border slightly concave in the middle, setal field as illustrated.

Measurements. F:1687, T: 2787, t1: 1262, t2:100, ctt1:39, IO: 500, D: 475, d: 337, IO/d: 1.48, PO: 0.71.

Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Norte de Santander. Aguas Calientes, National Natural Park Tamá , 7º 20’N : 72º 29’ W, 1970 m, IAvH, E146167. One female paratype, same locality, IavH, E145967b ( MAH) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Caribe Indians.