Systematics and biogeography of the New World species of Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Psocidae)
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Yoshizawa, Kazunori
Author
Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
Author
Mockford, Edward L.
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journal article
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00398.x
0024-4082
5446195
TRICHADENOTECNUM GUTTATUM
SP. NOV.
Material examined:
Holotype
. Male.
Mexico
:
Chiapas
,
Reserva de la Biosfera El Ocote
,
6.xii.1993
,
G. Ortega
&
E. Barrera
(
UNAM
)
.
Paratypes
.
Mexico
:
1 male
,
Veracruz
,
9.5 mi
E Orizaba
,
Rd.
150,
7.vii.1962
,
F. Hill
, ELM &
J. Campbell
(
ISU
)
;
1 male
,
Veracruz
, Rd. to
El Vigía
,
4 mi
N Santiago Tuxtla
,
Hwy
180, 3 mi from Hwy. 180,
13.vii.1973
, ELM (
ISU
)
;
1 male
,
Veracruz
, Rd. to
Cerro San Martín
from
San Andrés Tuxtla
,
8 mi
from Hwy. 180,
14.vii.1973
, ELM (
ISU
)
.
Etymology:
The specific epithet is taken from the Latin
guttatus
(= drop), indicating the shape of the hypandrial median tongue.
Description:
Male
.
Head
. White in ground colour; vertical and orbital markings large, blackish brown; coronal suture black; frontal suture bordered with broad blackish brown band dorsally; frons with two pairs of blackish brown bands, internal pair narrow, external pair broad and not reaching frontal suture; gena blackish brown except eye margin white; eye black, IO/D = 0.7; ocelli white, ocellar field black; antennal socket bordered with blackish brown band; postclypeus with eight rows of blackish brown spots, fused with each other ventrally to form a large marking, ventro-lateral corner white; anteclypeus blackish brown. Antenna brown, scape darker. Mouth parts blackish brown.
Thorax
. Prothorax blackish brown. Mesonotum pale brown; anterior surface of scutum blackish brown; anterior margin of lateral lobe and postero-lateral margin of anterior lobe of scutum black, posterolateral margin of lateral lobe and posterior part of anterior lobe white; scutellum brown, anterior margin blackish brown; postnotum brown. Metanotum pale brown, anterior lobe of scutum brown with white longitudinal line medially; scutellum brown, anterior margin blackish brown. Meso- and metapleurites blackish brown, with white longitudinal band medially.
Legs.
Brown; fore leg except tarsus and hind tibia paler; all femora with pair of blackish brown spots ventrally; all tibiae with blackish brown band near distal end; middle femur with paler region medially.
Forewing
(
Fig. 36B
). Spots in cell a
1
apparent. Opposing spots in cell r large, almost touching each other. Proximal band broad, broadly interrupted just beyond fork of M + Cu, strongly constricted at anterior end in cell cua, including triangular pale spot. Median spots dense, some spots fused with each other, forming larger markings. Distal band apparent, broad in cell r
5
. Spot on roof of cell m
3
apparent and broad. Submarginal spots apparent; spot in cell r
1
and m
3
smaller than others. Marginal clouds apparent and dark.
Hindwing.
Hyaline with faint brown marking in cell cup; veins brown.
Abdomen
. Mostly black ventrally, each segment with blackish band dorsally and laterally.
Terminalia
. Clunial arm long and narrow, sickle-like in shape and forming free process apically. Epiproct (
Fig. 37E, F
) chair-shaped, postero-dorsal margin with strongly projected transversal ridge, its median part with square-shaped thin keel; epiproct lobe long and wide, broader than long, narrowing dorsally, posterior surface slightly swelling. Paraproct: ventro-lateral band short, triangular; distal process long, directed upward. Hypandrium (
Fig. 37G
): left process needlelike, almost straight, directed posteriorly; right process lamellate; median tongue small and short, length/width ª 2, nearly parallel sided and rounded apically, dorsal surface covered by weak denticles. Phallosome (
Fig. 37H
): pseudoparameres long, needle-like. Aedeagus strongly projected dorsally, rectangular, sclerotized region extending to endophallus opening. Phallobase broadest at the middle, anterior margin rounded.
Length
. B 2.5–2.6; FW 3.0–3.2; HW 2.3–2.5.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution:
Mexico
.