Euplocania coyolarensis, González-Obando & García-Aldrete & Carrejo-Gironza & Vinasco-Mondragón, 2024

González-Obando, Ranulfo, García-Aldrete, Alfonso, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe, 2024, New Euplocania species (Psocodea: Ptiloneuridae) from Colombia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, amendments and addition to species groups, Zootaxa 5432 (3), pp. 398-410 : 401-402

Euplocania coyolarensis n. sp. Male

( Figs 1–6 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in species group danubiana . Unlike E. danubiana it has hypandrium centrally with the two middle posterior projection less wide and closely spaced, not overlapping lengthwise, the lateral posterior projections, on each side of the middle ones, are narrower and with two-three finger-like posterior processes ( Fig. 5 ); anterior endophallic sclerites small and widely separated ( Fig. 6 ).

Color (in plate). Head: Pale brown; genae brown, with dark brown spot, ocellar group ochre; maxillary palps pale brown; antennae pale brown, with scape and pedicel darker. Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with pale brown centripetal crescents. Forewings hyaline, with a brown marginal band from wing base to R 4+5; R 2+3 with brown spot at wing margin; pterostigma dark brown, anteriorly unpigmented. Hindwings hyaline, with pale brown band from wing base to end of CuP. Epiproct, paraprocts, hypandrium and phallosome brown.

Morphology: Head ( Fig. 3 ): H/MxW: 1.41; compound eyes large, H/D: 1.87; IO/MxW: 0.51. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Forewings ( Fig. 1 ): L/W: 2.61. Pterostigma angulate, extended towards Rs; lp/wp: 3.12, areola postica tall, with rounded apex, slanted posteriorly: al/ah: 1.67. Hindwings ( Fig. 2 ): l/ w: 3.1. Hypandrium of a broad, large sclerite, with setae and macrosetae as illustrated ( Fig. 5 ); obtusely convex anteriorly, latero-posteriorly angled, centrally with four posterior projections, two middle ones, long and slender, distally acuminate, and one on each side of the median ones, these tuberculate and macrosetose posteriorly ( Fig. 5 ). Phallosome ( Fig. 6 ) with side struts distally wide, V-shaped; external parameres stout, bearing pores distally; two pairs of endophallic sclerites plus a mesal, transverse endophallic sclerite, M-shaped, continued into an elongated postero-mesal sclerite that slightly exceeds the apex of the external parameres, ending in a hook directed outward; anterior pair of endophallic sclerites small, basally connected to the lateral endophallic sclerites, these laminar, elongate, broad basally, distally acuminate, and slightly curved inward; mesal endophallic sclerite with a triangular central projection and posterior preapical edge of lateral projections, serrated ( Fig. 6 ). Epiproct semioval, with two lateral macrosetae and setae on the posterior margin, as illustrated ( Fig. 4 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 4 ) broadly triangular, with setal field distally; sensory fields with 32 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (in microns). FW: 4300; HW: 3050; f1: 790; f2: 662; D: 520; d: 390; IO/d: 0.91; PO: 0.75.

Material studied. Holotype male (Musenuv). Nicaragua. Matagalpa, 50 km NE, El Coyolar. V.1991. S. Hue. Light trap . Paratype: 1 male (Musenuv), same data as the holotype .

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the type locality in El Coyolar, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, where the holotype was collected.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Euplocania coyolarensis n. sp. Male. 1. Forewing. 2. Hindwing. 3. Head (frontal view). 4. Epiproct and paraproct. 5. Hypandrium. 6. Phallosome. Scales in mm.