Edmockfordia calderonae, Nieto, Julian Alexander Mendivil, Gonzalez Obando, Ranulfo & Garcia Aldrete, Alfonso Neri, 2015

Nieto, Julian Alexander Mendivil, Gonzalez Obando, Ranulfo & Garcia Aldrete, Alfonso Neri, 2015, Two new species of Edmockfordia Garcia Aldrete (Psocodea, ' Psocoptera', Epipsocidae), from Valle del Cauca, Colombia, and description of the female E. chiquibulensis Garcia Aldrete, ZooKeys 503, pp. 45-54 : 46

Taxon classification Animalia Psocodea Epipsocidae

Edmockfordia calderonae sp. n. Figures 1-5

Type locality.

COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Buenaventura. Vereda El Salto. Pericos Natural Reserve, 350 m., 3°56'N, 76°47'W.

Type material.

Holotype male, 9-11.VIII.2013. light trap, O. Saenz, N. Calderón. Deposited in the Entomology Museum, Universidad del Valle, Santiago de Cali, Colombia (MUSENUV slide No. 25775).

Etymology.

It is our pleasure to dedicate this species to Nadia Calderón, a graduate student at the Universidad del Valle, who, together with Oscar Saenz Manchola, collected the specimens of the two species of Edmockfordia here described.

Diagnosis.

Phallosome with three posterior projections, with posterior end broadly W shaped; external parameres short, little developed; aedeagal arch slightly projected posteriorly; epiproct broadly rounded posteriorly.

Color

(in 80% ethanol). Body mostly pale brown, with creamy areas, as indicated below, pronotum, propleura and metapleura brown, upper half of mesopleura brown, lower half creamy; meso- and metanotal lobes creamy, bordered with brown. Abdomen creamy, clunium brown. Head (Fig. 2), with a brown transverse band between compound eyes enclosing the ocellar triangle; vertex creamy; genae brown; ocelli hyaline, with dark brown centripetal crescents; postclypeus brown, anteclypeus centrally brown, sides creamy; labrum pale brown anteriorly, fading towards the posterior margin. Antennae with scape and pedicel brown, flagella pale brown. Maxillary palpomeres 1-4 brown. Legs: front coxa, and trochanters of all legs creamy; coxae of mid and hind leg with a dark brown spot on outer border; femora mostly creamy, with a brown spot on proximal and distal ends; tibiae and tarsi pale brown. Forewings hyaline, pterostigma with a brown spot distally, and a brown band proximally; veins brown, each with a brown spot distally, at wing margin; a brown spot at nodulus. Hindwings hyaline, veins pale brown, with brown spots distally, at wing margin. Epiproct and paraprocts creamy. Hypandrium creamy, with postero-lateral corners brown.

Morphology.

As in diagnosis, plus the following: outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with eight denticles; compound eyes with interommatidial setae, mostly dorsally. Forewings (Fig. 1) symmetric, pterostigma elongate, rounded, widest in the middle; Rs with two branches, M dichotomously branched, resulting in four branches; areola postica low, apically rounded. Hindwings symmetric (Fig. 1), Rs of two branches, M simple. Coxae of hind leg without Pearman’s organ; trochanters of all legs dorsally with two long setae, tarsi of front legs without ctenidobothria, mid legs with 21 ctenidobothria on t1, t2 with two ctenidobothria. Hypandrium (Fig. 4): symmetric, setose, posterior border convex. Phallosome (Fig. 5): open anteriorly, side struts long, slender, sclerotized, external parameres short; aedeagal arch slightly projected posteriorly in the middle; endophallus membranous, without sclerites. Paraprocts (Fig. 3): elongate, ovoid, with short setae and a field of microsetae along inner margin, sensory fields with 22-23 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct (Fig. 3): trapeziform, broadly rounded posteriorly, setose, with a field of microsetae along posterior border; a field of papillae mesally, next to posterior border.

Measurements.

FW: 2675, HW: 2000, F: 625, T: 1125, t1: 500, t2: 120, ctt1: 30, f1: 550, f2: 440, IO: 260, D: 240, d: 300, IO/d: 0.86, PO: 1.25.