Euplocania napensis, Vinasco-Mondragón & González-Obando & García Aldrete, 2022

Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe, González-Obando, Ranulfo & García Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2022, New species of Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Psocomorpha) from Colombia and Ecuador, Zootaxa 5188 (2), pp. 101-120 : 109

Euplocania napensis n. sp. Male

( Figs 13–18 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in species group bonaverensis (González, García Aldrete, Carrejo & Panche, 2018) . It is related to E. huitota n. sp. and E. kakwa n. sp., differing from them by the hypandrium processes: antero-lateral processes narrowing distally, apices directed posteriorly; median posterior projections separated by a deep incision, anteriorly wide, narrowing distally to rounded apices and by presence of posterior endophallic sclerites.

Color (of parts mounted on slide). Head ( Fig. 15 ) pale brown with frontal dark pattern; compounds eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents; genae dark brown; clypeus brown, with diagonal brown bands converging to the middle; maxillary palps light brown, Mx1 paler than the other palpomeres. Legs pale brown. Forewings ( Fig. 13 ) hyaline, veins brown, with brown spots at veins ends; cells cu1 and cu2 with brown areas; pterostigma with proximal and distal brown bands. Hindwings ( Fig. 14 ) hyaline, veins brown. Hypandrium dark brown. Epiproct and paraprocts light brown.

Morphology. Head: H/MxW: 3.33; H/D: 2.6; IO/MxW: 0.17. Compound eyes mid-sized. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Forewings: L/W: 2.41. Pterostigma wider in the middle, semi-oval: lp/wp: 1.52, areola postica broadly triangular, with rounded apex: al/ah: 1.35. M four branched, M 4 distally forked. Hypandrium ( Fig. 18 ), anteriorly slightly protruded in the middle, with border almost straight; antero-lateral processes narrowing distally, apices directed posteriorly; median posterior projections separated by a deep incision, anteriorly wide, narrowing distally to rounded apices, bearing each a macroseta. Phallosome ( Fig. 17 ), with side struts V-shaped, external parameres distally broad, rounded, posteriorly with a row of microspicules; anterior endophallic sclerites broad, anteriorly straight, wider in the middle and acuminate posteriorly, mesal sclerites wider anteriorly, bowshaped, distally pointed; posterior sclerites small, broadly triangular, anteriorly and posteriorly acuminate. Paraprocts ( Fig. 16 ) triangular, with setal field posteriorly, a large mesal macroseta and two spatulate macrosetae as illustrated. Sensory fields with 22 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 16 ) anteriorly straight, rounded posteriorly, with three mesal macrosetae near anterior border, other setae as illustrated

Measurements (in microns). FW: 2712, HW: 1925, F: 700, T: 1150, t1: 500, t2: 60, t3: 100, ctt1: 19, f1: 350, f2: 280, f3: 245, Mx4: 190, IO: 560, D: 300, d: 200, IO/d: 1.55, PO: 0.67.

Material studied. Holotype male. ECUADOR. Napo. Waorani Ethnic Reserve. 1 km S Onkone Gare Camp. Transect Ent., 0°39’10’’S: 76°26’00’’W, 220 m., 9.II.1995. T. Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest. The holotype will be deposited in the Sección de Entomología, Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas , Escuela Politécnica Nacional, in Quito, Ecuador.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Napo, one of the 24 provinces of Ecuador, located in the Amazon region, where the holotype was collected.

Figures

FIGURES 13–18. Euplocania napensis n. sp. Male. 13. Forewing. 14. Hindwing. 15. Front view of head. 16. Epiproct and right paraproct. 17. Phallosome. 18. Hypandrium. Scales in mm.