Goja cuasispinosissima, Carrejo & Obando & Aldrete & Mendivil, 2021

Carrejo, Nancy, Obando, Ranulfo González, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Mendivil, Julián, 2021, New species of Goja Navás (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Epipsocidae) from Colombia Mexico and Peru, Zootaxa 4903 (4), pp. 501-541 : 515-516

Goja cuasispinosissima n. sp. Male

( Figs 34–38 )

Diagnosis. Similar to G. spinosissima Casasola González & García Aldrete , differing from it in having the pair of posterior endophallic sclerites with apices acuminate and curved outward ( Fig. 38 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body brown to light brown, with ochre spots. Head light brown with ochre pigmented pattern ( Fig. 36 ), light brown, with three dark ochre brown spots, two lateral and one smaller in the middle; front with broad ochre band between the inner margins of the compound eyes, including the ocellar triangle; postclypeus brown, with three ochre striae; anteclypeus dark brown; genae light brown, with two ochre spots; labrum light brown, labral sclerites dark brown, mandibles dark brown. Compound eyes dark brown, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Maxillary palps and antennae light brown. Thorax dark brown, pronotum with cream spots, propleura cream, with ochre spots; tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax with light brown spots, meso- and metapleura dark brown with light brown spots. Legs: coxae, trochanters and femora cream, coxae with small light brown basal spots, femora with light brown spots; tibiae and tarsi light brown, tibiae darker apically. Wings light brown, veins brown. Forewings ( Fig. 34 ), pterostigma with a proximal and a distal brown band, cells r5 and m with anteapical light brown spots, areola postica with light brown spot. Hindwings ( Fig. 35 ). Abdomen ochre, with cream spots. Clunium and hypandrium brown. Phallosome with endophallic sclerites and aedeagal arch dark brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head: H/MxW: 1.60; compound eyes large, H/D: 3.17; IO/ MxW: 0.70. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with eight denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.17. Forewings ( Fig. 34 ): FW/W: 2.71; Rs two-branched, M dichotomously branched, resulting in four veins at wing margin. Pterostigma long: lp/ wp: 4.92, areola postica low, elongate: al/ah: 3.57. Hindwings ( Fig. 35 ): HW/w: 3.14; R two-branched; M simple. Hypandrium missing. Phallosome ( Fig. 38 ) closed anteriorly; side struts straight, narrow, slightly curved outward; aedeagal arch wide, posterior margin concave, with two short distal lateral processes; external parameres well developed, membranous, joined to the side struts, wide, protruding laterally outside the aedeagal arch, apex rounded with few pores. Anterior pair of endophallic sclerites long, with a row of five slender spines, distally acuminate on outer border. One longitudinal pigmented process on inner borders, rounded posteriorly and branched as illustrated. Posterior pair of endophallic sclerites robust, wide anteriorly, distally acuminate and curved outward. Paraprocts ( Fig. 37 ), oval, with setae and macrosetae on distal field; sensory fields large, with 34 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 37 ) wide, semioval, rounded posteriorly, with three macrosetae mesally, setal distal field as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 4200, HW: 3060, F: 985, T: 1785, t1: 825, t2: 230, ctt1: 34, f1: 825, f2: 767.5, f3: 570, Mx4: 280, IO: 400, D: 290, d: 224, IO/d: 1.79, PO: 0.77.

Specimens studied. Holotype male. MEXICO. Chiapas, Cacahoatán, Ejido El Águila , ca. Cascada La Sirena , Volcán Tacaná , 15º06’4.02”N: 92º10’52.44”W, 1244 m. 12.II–13.III.2018. R. J. Cancino López and A. M. Luna-Luna. Malaise trap.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the similarity with Goja spinosissima .

Figures

FIGURES 34‒38. G. cuasispinosissima n. sp. Male. 34. Forewing. 35. Hindwing. 36. Front view of head. 37. Epiproct and right paraproct. 38. Phallosome. Scales in mm.