Triplocania huilaensis, González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García, 2017

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2017, New species of Colombian Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae), Zootaxa 4336 (1), pp. 1-113 : 93-95

Triplocania huilaensis n. sp. Female

( Figs 317–322 )

Diagnosis. Similar, on female characters, to T. lamensuraensis n. sp., decribed below, but differing from it in that the forewing veins have well defined distal brown spots, also, the ninth sternum is wider, with a pigmented anterior area, missing in T. lamensuraensis n. sp., the posterior median process is well defined, and the lateral, elongate areas are distinct; besides, the distal process of v2 +3 is longer and straight in T. huilaensis n. sp. (compare Figs 317 and 322 , with Figs 329 and 334 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Head pale brown, pattern ( Fig. 319 ); compound eyes dark brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Postclypeus with well defined dark brown area. Antennae pale brown. Maxillary palps pale brown, Mx4 distally brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown, with creamy areas. Mesepisternum and metepimeron brown, with cream small areas; mesepimeron and metepisternum cream with pale brown spots. Legs pale brown, fore- coxae pale brown, mid and hind coxae cream, hind femora with proximal and distal brown spots. Forewing pattern ( Fig. 317 ). Hindwings almost hyaline, with basal and distal pale brown bands. Abdomen creamy, with irregular and subcuticular brown spots. Subgenital plate cream, with pigmented area V-shaped, pale brown, more pigmented proximally and distally. Gonapophyses brown. IX sternum ( Fig. 322 ). Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown, with subcuticular brown spots.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 319 ): H/MxW: 1.63, H/D: 3.02, IO/MxW: 0.69, MxW/IO: 2.16. Vertex slightly emarginate, almost at the same level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.14. Forewings ( Fig. 317 ): L/W: 2.55. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 6.13, with abundant setae; areola postica la/ha: 1.74, Cu1a slightly concave. Hindwings ( Fig. 318 ): l/w: 2.77. Subgenital plate wide, rounded posteriorly, with dense field of setae. Gonapophyses ( Fig. 322 ): v1 elongate, narrow, acuminate; v2 +3 with short proximal heel, a row of seven macrosetae on v2; distal process long, acuminate, with microsetae. IX sternum ( Fig. 322 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 321 ) broad, with setae as illustrated; sensory fields with 31 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct ( Fig. 321 ) long, triangular, with setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 6750, HW: 4500, F: 1725, T: 2775, t1: 1285, t2: 102, t3: 205, Mx4: 387, ctt1: 36, f1: 1125, f2: 1200, f3: 1025, f4: 800, f5: 587, f6: 500, f7: 425, f8: 350, f9: 317, f10: 300, IO: 550, D: 430, d: 325, IO/d: 1.69, PO: 0.76.

Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Huila. La Plata, Belén, Meremberg Nature Reserve , 02°13’06.6’’N : 76°07’01.1’’W, 2352 m., 21.I.2015. MUSENUV slide code 28632. N. R. Calderón & R. González. On rock surface.

Etymology. The specific name refers to the Colombian department of Huila, where the Meremberg Nature Reserve is located and where the holotype was found.

Figures

FIGURES 317 – 322. Triplocania huilaensis n. sp. Female. 317. Forewing. 318. Hindwing. 319. Front view of head. 320. Subgenital plate 321. Epiproct and right paraproct. 322. Ninth sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 329 – 334. Triplocania lamensuraensis n. sp. Female. 329. Forewing. 330. Hindwing. 331. Front view of head. 332. Subgenital plate. 333. Left paraproct and epiproct. 334. Ninth sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.