Steleops cumbrensis, González-Obando & Calderón-Martínez & Carrejo-Gironza & Manchola, 2025

González-Obando, Ranulfo, Calderón-Martínez, Nadia R., Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy S. & Manchola, Oscar Fernando Saenz, 2025, New species of Steleops Enderlein (Psocodea: Psocoptera: Psocidae): key for species determination and proposal for groups of species, Zootaxa 5605 (1), pp. 1-65 : 56

Steleops cumbrensis sp. nov.

( Figs 200–206 )

Diagnosis. Unlike S. lichenatus , S. ortegae , S. plenitudensis and S. bolivianus sp. nov. this has the hypandrium proximally with rounded areas near the margins, each with numerous short spines, left side, posterodistally with two elongate processes, one of them with apical teeth, right side distally crenulated ( Fig. 205 ).

Color (On plate and 80% ethanol). Head ( Fig. 202 ) brown, with darker spots on vertex, ocellar tubercle and genae. Black compound eyes. Thorax light brown with dark brown sutures and spots, forewings proximally almost completely brown except for a hyaline stripe in the middle ( Fig. 200 ), distally brown with large hyaline areas on the edge of the wing cells. Pterostigma dark brown. Veins brown, with greenish-yellow, small, and rounded spots on the radial and medial veins, like spur veins. Hindwings ( Fig. 201 ) hyalines to smoky brown, with basal brown spot, and veins brown. Epiproct ( Fig. 204 ), paraprocts ( Fig. 203 ) and phallosome ( Fig. 206 ) brown. Legs light cream, coxae proximally brown, femora basally brown, with small brown spots on the medial part, tibiae with three small brown spots in the distal area.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 202 ): H/MxW: 0.98; compound eyes large, oval, not pedunculated, H/D: 2.61; IO/MxW: 0.92. Vertex slightly emarginated, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with two or no defined denticle; Mx4/Mx2: 1.75. Forewings ( Fig. 200 ): L/W: 2.24. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.00, apically wider, with R 1 forming a right angle curvature; vein 1A with two pocket-like protuberances, areola postica: al/ah: 1.45. Hindwings ( Fig. 201 ): l/w: 2.50. Hypandrium asymmetrical ( Fig. 205 ), proximally with rounded areas near the margins, each with numerous short spines, left side, posterodistally with two elongate processes, one of them with apical teeth, right side distally crenulated. Phallosome ( Fig. 206 ) rhomboid, with phallobase broadly rounded anteriorly; left paramere is flattened, widened, spatula-like and apically rounded; aedeagus narrow, wider basally, apically truncated, partially fused to the left paramere. Right paramere obliterated. Epiproct subtrapezoidal ( Fig. 204 ) projected onto the clunium, with two small, rounded lateral apical lobes.Paraprocts ( Fig. 203 ) with dorsal lobes in lateral view, with narrow hook-shaped lateroapical process, tapering, shorter than the body of the paraproct, strongly curved basally, projecting upwards, sensory fields with 19 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (microns). FW: 3475, HW: 2537.5, F: 650, T: 1270, t1: 462.5, t2: 142.5, ctt1: 23, f1: 475, f2: 250, f3: 210, Mx4: 140, IO: 560, d: 200, D: 230, IO/d: 2.8, PO: 0.87

Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. La Cumbre. Montañitas. 3°38’’11.1’’N: 76°31’53.3’’W. 1665 m. 16.ix.2011. R. González. On tree bark. Musenuv slide code: 32189.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the municipality of La Cumbre, where the holotype was collected.

Group mendivili

Figures

FIGURES 200–206. Steleops cumbrensis sp. nov. Male. 200. Forewings. 201. Hindwing. 202. Head (frontal view). 203. Paraproct. 204. Epiproct. 205. Hypandrium. 206. Phallosome. Scales in mm.