New species of Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea, ‘ Psocoptera’, Ptiloneuridae) from Brazil, with a checklist of all known species of the genus
Author
Neto, Alberto Moreira Da Silva
Author
García Aldrete, Alfonso N.
Author
Rafael, José Albertino
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-01-25
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3
374
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journal article
27476
10.11646/zootaxa.4550.3.5
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Euplocania hutchingsi
n. sp.
Male
(
Figs 16–22
)
Diagnosis.
Belonging in species group
amabilis
of
García Aldrete
et al.
(2013)
and subgroup
ariasi
, of Vinasco- Mondragón
et al
. (2018). It is close to
E. ariasi
Vinasco-Mondragón, González & García Aldrete
, differing from it by having the postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium curved inwards, with straight acuminate internal processes directed inwards, by having an acuminate projection on each side, anterior to each postero-lateral process, and in details of the phallosome endophallic sclerites, particularly the mesal sclerite, which has a small posterior projection in the middle (compare
Figs 20 and
21
in this paper with
Figs 5 and
6
in Vinasco- Mondragón
et al
. 2018).
Color
(in 80% ethanol). Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents, head pattern (
Fig. 16
). Scape brown, pedicel yellow. Legs with coxae brown, trochanters and femora yellow, tibiae brown, distally dark brown; tarsomere 1 yellow with end dark brown, tarsomeres 2–3 dark brown. Forewings veins brown, with a dark brown spot at wing margin, a marginal pigmented band from R
4+5
to A
2
with two hyaline areas, boomerang shaped, on each side of vein ends at wing margin; Rs and crossvein Rs-M dark brown. Pterostigma dark brown, with a small pale brown area at lower angle (
Fig. 17
). Hindwings (
Fig. 18
), almost hyaline, with area limited by CuP brown pale brown, veins brown, each with a brown spot distally at wing margin.
FIGURES 9–15.
Euplocania cearaensis
n. sp.
(Holotype male). 9. Front view of head. 10. Forewing. 11. Hindwing. 12. Lacinial tip. 13. Hypandrium. 14. Phallosome. 15. Clunium, right paraproct and epiproct. Scales in mm.
FIGURES 16–22.
Euplocania hutchingsi
n. sp.
(Holotype male). 16. Front view of head. 17. Forewing. 18. Hindwing.19. Lacinial tip. 20. Hypandrium. 21. Phallosome. 22. Clunium, left paraproct and epiproct. Scales in mm.
Morphology.
As in diagnosis, plus the following: Compound eyes without interommatidial setae (
Fig. 16
). Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with five denticles (
Fig. 19
). Forewing pterostigma angulate, projected in the middle towards Rs, almost triangular, areola postica tall, with round apex, slanted posteriorly, M with four primary branches (
Fig. 17
). Hindwing Rs straight, R
2+3
and R
4+5
straight, M sinuous (
Fig. 18
). Hypandrium of three sclerites, a large central sclerite, with sides sinuous, almost straight anteriorly, side sclerites almost triangular; setae as illustrated (
Fig. 20
). Phallosome (
Fig. 21
) with side struts basally fused, V-shaped, narrowing posteriorly, distally curved inwards and acuminate. External parameres U-shaped with a field of pores distally. Mesal sclerite narrow in the middle, widening at the ends, with a small posterior projection in the middle. Two pairs of endophallic sclerites, antero-mesal pair strongly sclerotized, V-shaped, with slender inner arms and stout outer arms; antero-lateral pair wide basally, with sides narrowing posteriorly, with acuminate apex. Paraprocts (
Fig. 22
) almost elliptic, with a dense distal setal field; sensory fields with 27–28 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct (
Fig. 22
) broad, with one concave area on each antero-lateral corner; sides converging to round posterior border, one macroseta on each side, other setae as illustrated.
Measurements
(in microns). FW: 4137, HW: 2840, F: 1202, T: 1723, t1: 717, t2: 76, t3: 183, IO: 508, D: 443, d: 270, PO: 0.61.
Material examined.
Holotype
male (INPA).
BRAZIL
.
Acre
. Senador Guiomard. Br 364,
Km
23,
Fazenda Experimental Catuaba
, UFAC [Universidade Federal do
Acre
].
Floresta Estadual de Antimary.
10°03'27"S
:
67°36'00"W
.
23–24. VIII. 2016
. CDC
1m
.
R. W. Hutchings. Code
rBia-0050.
Etymology.
This species is dedicated to its collector, Dr. Roger William Hutchings, researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amâzonia (INPA), in Manaus, Amazonas
Brazil
, in recognition to his important studies on the taxonomy of Diptera.