New genera of Psocoptera (Insecta), from Mexico, Belize and Ecuador (Psoquillidae, Ptiloneuridae, Lachesillidae)
Author
García, Alfonso N.
Author
Aldrete
text
Zootaxa
2006
1319
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273553
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273553
Belicania
n. gen.
Diagnosis.
Belonging in the
Ptiloneuridae
. Male hypandrium simple, with two distinct, posterolateral, slender, acuminate apophyses, curved inward; lacking smaller, side sclerites. Forewing M three branched, hindwing M simple. Five distal inner labral sensilla, a central placoid, flanked at some distance by a pair trichoidplacoid. Phallosome: basal struts robust, Vshaped, joined distally to the external parameres, these sausageshaped, elongate, bearing pores distally. Two pairs of endophallic sclerites, outer pair wide based, long, distally acuminate, directed outwards; inner pair strongly pigmented basally, each half with a short, blunt extension directed posteriorly. Male and female paraprocts and epiproct, and female subgenital plate, gonapophyses and ninth sternum as in species of
Triplocania
.
Differing from
Perucania
New & Thornton
, and from
Triplocania
Roesler
, in having the hypandrium simple, with posterolateral projections and lacking side sclerites. Differing from
Ptiloneuropsis
Roesler
in lacking a triangular areola postica joined to M by a crossvein in the forewing. Differing from
Ptiloneura
Enderlein
,
Loneura
Navás
,
Euplocania
Enderlein
and
Timnewia
García Aldrete
, in having forewing M with three branches, and in having the hypandrium simple, with posterolateral projections. Differing from
Loneuroides
García Aldrete
, in having forewing M three branched and with a smooth pterostigma, and in having hindwing M simple. Differing from
Willreevesia
García Aldrete
, in having forewing M three branched, in having hypandrium with posterolateral projections, and in having phallosome with sausageshaped external parameres without associated sclerites, and lacking a central, three pronged sclerite.
Type
species.
Triplocania cervantesi
García Aldrete
Etymology
. The genus name is artificial, combining the root of
Belize
, the country where the species was collected, and “cania”, a common generic stem used in
Ptiloneuridae
(e. g. as in
Perucania
and
Triplocania
).