Javablaste Endang, Thornton

Kentjonowati, Endang Sri, 2010, The subfamily Amphigerontiinae (Insecta: Psocoptera: Psocidae) in Sumatra, Indonesia, with descriptions of nine new species, Zootaxa 2436, pp. 1-27 : 14

Javablaste Endang, Thornton & New

Javablaste Endang, Thornton & New, 2002: 121. Type species: Javablaste aidab Endang, Thornton & New, 2002: 122.

Javablaste was erected to contain two species and one additional female which, at present, is not named. The diagnostic generic characters are: fore wing pterostigma broad, concave apically, areola postica five-sided, discoidal cell widening anteriorly; male: hypandrium symmetrical with median posterior lobes and a pair of long lateral spinose lobes; phallosome free distally, parameres rounded and serrated posteriorly; female: subgenital plate with long posterior lobe setose apically, main plate with V-shaped sclerotised mark and transverse sclerotised bar at mid line; dorsal gonapohysis valve elongate, outer valve with long posterior lobe. Two similar Chinese species were allocated to Blastopsocidus Badonnel , as B. flavidus and B. pini by Li (1989, 1990). Smithers (1972) stated that the male hypandrium of Blastopsocidus is asymmetrical, with lateral prolonged apophyses crossing each other medially, and the female subgenital plate usually has a short posterior lobe, with a Y- shaped pigmented area. The first and second sections of vein Cu1a are usually more or less in a straight line. These two species from China do not agree with the generic characters of Blastopsocidus because the male hyandrium is symmetrical in both of them, and the areola postica of the fore wing is five-sided. B. flavidus and B. pini appear to correspond more closely to the generic characters of Javablaste , but differ from J. merapiensis , J aidab , and the three species described here, in genitalic details. Re-examination of Blastopsocidus flavidus and Blastopsocidus pini is needed to clarify their affinities.