Systematics and biogeography of the New World species of Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘ Psocoptera’: Psocidae)
Author
Yoshizawa, Kazunori
Author
Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
Author
Mockford, Edward L.
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-lookup/doi/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00398.x
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10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00398.x
0024-4082
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TRICHADENOTECNUM DENTICULATUM
SP. NOV.
Material examined:
Holotype
. Male.
Guatemala
:
18 km
SE of
Guatemala
,
Guatemala
C. A.,
Carretera
a
Puerto Barrios
,
27.viii.1973
, ANGA (
UNAM
)
.
Paratypes
.
Honduras
:
1 male
,
Comayagua
,
4 km
N
Lahikostad
,
18.vii.1977
,
G. B. Marshall
;
1 male
, D. C.,
8 km
SE Tamara
,
Hwy
1,
27.vii.1977
,
L. B. O’Brien
et al.
(
UNAM
)
;
1 male
,
Comayagua
,
5 km
NW
Taulabé
,
29.vii.1977
,
L. B. O’Brien
et al.
(
UNAM
)
.
Etymology:
The specific epithet refers to the denticles on the edge of the clunial arms and on the apex of the aedeagus.
Description:
Male
.
Head
. White in ground colour; vertical and orbital markings large, blackish brown; coronal suture black; frontal suture bordered with brown band dorsally; frons with two pairs of pale brown bands; gena blackish brown with white spot medially; eye black, IO/D = 1.0; ocelli white, ocellar field black; antennal socket bordered with blackish brown band; postclypeus with eight rows of faint brown spots, fused with each other ventrally forming a large, blackish brown marking, ventro-lateral corner white; anteclypeus blackish brown. Antenna pale brown, scape and pedicel darker. Mouth parts blackish brown.
Thorax
. Prothorax blackish brown. Mesonotum pale brown; anterior surface of scutum blackish brown; anterior margin of lateral lobe of scutum black; anterior margin of scutellum blackish brown; postnotum brown. Metanotum brown, with pale oval spot on posterior region of each lateral lobe of scutum; medial lobe with white spot posteriorly; scutellum blackish brown. Meso- and metapleurites blackish brown except membranous region white.
Legs.
Blackish brown; tibiae and fore coxa paler; fore and middle femora with pale brown portions at middle and distal end.
Forewing
(
Fig. 36E
). Distal spot in cell a
1
large and dark, basal one small and faint. Opposing spots in cell r apparent but rather small. Proximal band broad but pale in posterior half, strongly constricted at anterior part of cell CuA, broadly interrupted around fork of M + Cu. Median spots sparse, some distal spots fused with each other, forming a large marking. Distal band broad but faint, especially in cell r
5
. Spot on roof of cell m
3
small, almost indistinct around M3 fork. Submarginal spots apparent; spot in cell m
3
smaller and paler. Marginal clouds apparent, darker along each vein.
Hindwing.
Hyaline; veins brown.
Abdomen
. White with irregular faint brown markings.
Terminalia
. Clunial arm (
Fig. 41A
) broad, axeshaped, distal part with rows of serrations and denticles. Anterior margin of 8th sternum (
Fig. 41C
) with broad triangular incision at middle, narrowly fused with hypandrium posteriorly. Epiproct lobe (
Fig. 41B
) long, much longer than wide, conical and pointed dorsally in posterior view. Hypandrium (
Fig. 41C
): left and right processes long, directed postero-internally, very slightly arched, gradually narrowing to pointed apices. Phallosome (
Fig. 41D, E
) with single posterior process apically denticulated. Phallobase almost parallel sided, widest near anterior end, anterior margin rounded.
Figure 40.
Male terminalia structures of
Trichadenotecnum barrerai
, showing terminalia in lateral view (A), epiproct in posterior view (B), hypandrium in ventral view (C) and phallosome in ventral (D) and lateral views (E); everted endophallus is not illustrated in D or E.
Length
. B 2.1–2.9; FW 2. 6–3.0; HW 2.0–2.4.
Female
. Unknown.
Distribution:
Guatemala
,
Honduras
.