Triplocania humboldtiana, 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 : 55-57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4336.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA65E14F-102F-4FF1-B8D5-D7E0C9126878

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6024786

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD879B-CF75-FF99-FF6A-E92DFC9BFC47

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Plazi

scientific name

Triplocania humboldtiana
status

sp. nov.

Triplocania humboldtiana View in CoL n. sp. Male

( Figs 176–181 View FIGURES 176 – 181 )

Diagnosis. Belonging in the species assemblage that includes T. calima n. sp., T. felidiaensis n. sp., and T. mariacarmenae n. sp. Differing from them in the hypandrium ( Fig. 180 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ) and phallosome ( Fig. 181 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ). It has three pairs of endophallic sclerites, the posterior asymmetric, each arm anteriorly curved, right one distally curved, acuminate, left one also distally curved, but apically dilated, with a row of teeth on outer border; mesal pair Ushaped, with arms slender, and a stout median projection bearing distally a row of teeth ( Fig. 181 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale cream, with pale brown and dark spots. Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head ( Fig. 178 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ): with narrow brown diagonal band from inner margin of each compound eye to near the epistomal sulcus. Vertex, front, clypeus and labrum dark cream; postclypeus and vertex with brown spots. Genae with narrow areas brown, from compound eyes to subgenal sulcus. Postgenae cream. Antennae pale brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown. Thoracic pleura cream, except the brown mesopleura. Legs: fore- and hind- pale cream; middle leg pale brown; coxae and tarsomeres 2–3 brown. Forewings with pale brown marginal band from pterostigma to 1A; setae on veins issuing from brown areolae ( Fig. 176 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ). Hindwing with cream marginal band, from R4+5 to near Cu1, and anteriorly, along wing margin, from 1A almost to Cu1 ( Fig. 177 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ). Abdomen pale cream, with small irregular brown spots. Cluniun brown; hypandrium and phallosome dark brown. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 178 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ): H/MxW: 1.49; compound eyes: H/D: 2.32, IO/MxW: 0.75, MxW/IO: 2.27. Vertex almost straight, at the same level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with seven denticles. Forewings ( Fig. 176 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ): pterostigma membrane with abundant setae; L/W: 2.46, pterostigma: lp/wp: 5.50; areola postica high, la/ha: 1.76. Hindwings ( Fig. 177 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ): l/w: 2.69. Hypandrium asymmetric ( Fig. 180 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ), side sclerites larger than the central one, this deeply convex anteriorly, posterior projection slender, distally acuminate, near the left postero-lateral corner. Phallosome V-shaped anteriorly ( Fig. 181 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ), side struts joined distally to the slender external parameres. Paraprocts ( Fig. 179 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ) broad, elongate, rounded posteriorly; sensory fields with 37 trichobothria on basal rosettes, setae as illustrated. Epiproct ( Fig. 179 View FIGURES 176 – 181 ) wide, semioval, straight anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, with setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 7375, HW: 4975, F: 1725, T: 2925, t1: 1062, t2: 187, t3: 227, ctt1: 26, f1: 1375, IO: 670, D: 570, d: 410, IO/d: 1.63, PO: 0.72.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Norte de Santander, National Natural Park Tamá, Toledo , La Candelaria ( Pozo Negro ), 7°21’N: 72°28’W, 2203 m., 21–29.XI.2003, C. Leal. Malaise trap ( MAH) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific epithet is an adjective; the species is dedicated to the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, Boyacá, Colombia.

MAH

Department of Agricultural Research

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Psocodea

Family

Ptiloneuridae

Genus

Triplocania

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