Ptiloneura cipeca García Aldrete, Carrejo & Panche.

Obando, Ranulfo González, Gironza, Nancy Carrejo, Panche, Jeferson & Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García, 2020, An appraisal of the genus Ptiloneura Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea: Psocomorpha Ptiloneuridae), new species from Colombia and Peru, and a key to the males, Zootaxa 4801 (3), pp. 401-449 : 420-423

Ptiloneura cipeca García Aldrete, Carrejo & Panche. Male

( Figs 44–49 )

Diagnosis. Related to P. mirandaensis (García Aldrete) ; median projection of the central sclerite of the hypandrium long, slender, distally truncate; posterior side sclerites of the hypandrium sickle shaped, with the handle very long, directed outwards ( Fig. 47 ).

Color. Body brown, with light brown spots. Head with light and dark brown areas ( Fig. 46 ). Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents.Vertex brown, with light brown spots. Postclypeus and anteclypeus dark brown. Genae and postgenae dark brown, with light brown small area. Antennae: scape and pedicel cream, flagellomeres light brown, with apices cream. Maxillary palps light brown, Mx4 dark brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax dark brown. Thoracic pleura light brown, with large ochre spots. Legs: coxae, trochanters and femora light brown, coxae and trochanters with ochre spots; tibiae and tarsi pale brown, tibiae with dark brown areolae in setal insertions. Wings hyaline, forewings with pterostigma dark brown, with a hyaline area in the middle; a pale brown slender marginal band from R4+5 to distal half of 1A; the band as a series narrow arcs, with hyaline fenestrae on each side of the vein ends. Hindwings veins brown. Abdomen light brown to ochre, with subcuticular ochre spots on tergum and sternum. Clunium pale brown with subcuticular ochre spots. Sclerites of hypandrium brown to dark brown; phallosome dark brown. Epiproct and paraprocts creamy.

Morphology. Head ( Fig. 46 ) H/MxW: 1.50; large compound eyes, H/d: 3.05; IO/MxW: 0.72; vertex slightly below the level of the upper border of the compound eyes; outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with 7 denticles. Mx4/ Mx2: 1.21. Forewings ( Fig. 44 ) L/W: 2.70; pterostigma: lp/wp: 5.29, elongate, wider in the middle; M six branched; areola postica: la/ha: 1.74, tall, wide, apically rounded. Hindwings ( Fig. 45 ) l/w: 3.09; M four-branched. Hypandrium of five sclerites ( Fig. 47 ), central sclerite with a long, median posterior projection, truncate distally, with tufts of long macrosetae on each side; pair of posterior sclerites transverse, side sclerites quite large, elongate. Phallosome ( Fig. 49 ) V-shaped anteriorly, side struts wide; external parameres elongate, with rounded apices, bearing small pores. Five endophallic sclerites. Anterior pair medium sized, goblet shaped. Lateral endophallic sclerites bow shaped, proximally slender, dilated distally, inner margin with a row of small denticles. Mesal sclerite tranverse, with central conic process, mesal sclerite processes elongate, basally wide, distal ends blunt. Paraprocts ( Fig. 48 ) oval, setae and spicules as illustrated; sensory fields with 30-31 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 48 ) anteriorly convex, posteriorly rounded, with microspicules on basal field, macrosetae and short setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 5100, HW: 3650, F: 1450, T: 2550, t1: 1062, t2: 112, t3: 180, ctt1: 31, f1: 1200, f2: 1300, f3: 1140, Mx4: 400, IO: 600, D: 538, d: 410, IO/d: 1.46, PO: 0.76.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Caquetá. San Vicente del Caguán, Laureles, Reserva Indígena Altamira , 2º27’50.14”N: 74º55’2.06”W, 917 m. 28-29.IV.2017. Led light trap in forest canopy. J. Panche. MUSENUV slide code 29307.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the “Comité Indígena Páez y Emberá del Caquetá ” (CIPECA).

Figures

FIGURES 44–49. Ptiloneura cipeca n. sp. Male. 44. Forewing. 45. Hindwing. 46. Front view of head. 47. Hypandrium. 48. Left paraproct and epiproct. 49. Phallosome. Scales in mm.