The species group Amabilis of the genus Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Ptiloneuridae)
Author
Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe
Author
González-Obando, Ranulfo
Author
García-Aldrete, Alfonso N.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-07-06
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4444.1.3
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Euplocania rafaeli
n. sp.
Male
Figs 49–54
Diagnosis.
It is close to
E. picta
New
,
E. pictaoides
García Aldrete
,
E. caldasi
n. sp.
,
E. vaupesiana
n. sp.
,
E. ecuatoriana
n. sp.
, and
E. lasdelicias
n. sp.
, differing from them by the posterior processes of the central sclerite of the hypandrium, and by details of the mesal endophallic sclerite and antero-mesal endophallic sclerites.
Color
(in 80% ethanol). Head ochraceous, with dark brown pattern as illustrated (
Fig. 51
). Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Legs: hind- and mid- coxae creamy, with proximal dark brown stripes; fore coxa ochraceous with proximal dark brown stripe. Femora, tibia and tarsi pale brown. Forewings veins pale brown, with a dark brown spot at wing margin, surrounded by a clear window; first section of vein Rs, crossvein Rs-M and stem of M dark brown; pterostigma dark brown with a rounded hyaline area at the lower angle (
Fig. 49
). Hindwings hyaline, veins pale brown with a dark spot distally (
Fig. 50
).
Central
sclerite of hypandrium brown. Epiproct pale brown; paraprocts pale brown, with a dark brown curved band limiting the outer side of the sensory fields.
Morphology
. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (
Fig. 51
): H/MxW: 1.43, H/d: 2.91, H/D: 2.05; compound eyes large: IO/MxW: 0.45. Vertex concave in the middle. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with six denticles. Forewings (
Fig. 49
). L/W: 2.50, pterostigma elongate and extended towards Rs, lp/wp: 3.61. Areola postica tall, apex rounded. Hindwings (
Fig. 50
): l/w: 2.81.
Central
sclerite of hypandrium with sides almost parallel, postero-lateral processes broad, with inner border straight, rounded outwards, leaving between them a broad, straight concavity, a field of short spines in each process; side sclerites large, broadly rhomboid (
Fig. 54
). Phallosome anteriorly V-shaped (
Fig. 53
), external parameres slender, curved inwards, with an internal, long and slender sclerotized bar; lateral endophallic sclerites stout, wide anteriorly and narrowing posteriorly. Mesal endophallic sclerite transverse, trapeziform, anteriorly straight, posteriorly sinuous; with a mid posterior projection long, slender, about three times the width of the sclerite. Paraprocts (
Fig. 52
) oval, almost triangular, setose as illustrated, sensory fields with 30 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct wide, semi-triangular, posteriorly rounded, with two preapical macrosetae and two apical normal length setae. Posterior border with a row of four setae and a transverse field of microsetae as illustrated (
Fig. 52
).
Measurements.
FW: 5000, HW: 3375, F: 1225, T: 2125, t1: 860, t2: 100, t3: 140, ctt1: 28, f1: 950, f2:850, IO: 480, D: 520, d: 370, IO/d: 1.30, PO: 0.71.
Specimen studied
.
Holotype
male.
BRAZIL
.
Paraná
. São José dos Pinhais.
25°32’05’’S
: 49°12’23’’W.
X.1984
. J. A. Rafael.
Malaise trap
. INPA
Etymology.
This species is dedicated to Dr. José Albertino Rafael, a 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 and Zoraptera, who has done much to promote the study of the insect fauna of the Amazon Basin.