Steleops similis, 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 : 51-53

Steleops similis sp. nov.

( Figs 186–192 )

Diagnosis. Like Steleops elegans , but unlike this it presents the hypandrium with apical lobe under a group of lateral spines ( Fig. 191 ) and epiproct with a pair of preapical teeth on the anterior processes ( Fig. 189 ).

Male. Color (on plate and 80% ethanol). Head ( Fig. 188 ) with “Y”-shaped spot from the base of the compound eyes to the labrum, genae cream and front pale brown. Black compound eyes with cream space between the ommatidia. Thorax, cream with dark brown scutum. Forewings ( Fig. 186 ) with dark brown spots and brown veins. Hindwings ( Fig. 180 ) hyalines, veins brown. Smoked epiproct and paraprocts.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head with one third of the eyes projected above the vertex; vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes, emarginate, with broad mesal sulcus ( Fig. 189 ): H/ MxW: 1.10; compound eyes large, H/D: 1.42; IO/MxW: 0.78. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with three short denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 2.33. Forewings ( Fig. 186 ): L/W: 2.54. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 2.78, areola postica: al/ah: 1.501. Hindwings ( Fig. 187 ): l/w: 2.82. Hypandrium asymmetrical, left area with long sclerotized teeth, apically with elongated process and rounded apical margin ( Fig. 191 ). Right area distally shorter than the left area, with setose fields or with short teeth. Phallosome symmetrical ( Fig. 192 ), with broad phallobase, external parameres curved inwards, with external margin with spines and fused to sides of aedeagal arch, these separated apically. Epiproct bilobed ( Fig. 189 ) projected on the clunium, distally with two long acuminate anterior projections. Paraprocts ( Fig. 190 ) oval, with short apical process, gently curved and apically rounded, sensory fields with 20 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (microns). FW: 2600, HW: 1975, F: 550, T: 1175, t1: 425, t2: 100, ctt1: 23, f1: 400, f2: 320, f3: 290, f4: 210, f5: 160, f6: 150, f7: 120, f8: 110, f9: 100, f10: 90, f11: 70, Mx4: 140, IO: 380, d: 370, D: 380, IO/d: 1.03, PO: 0.97

Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Obando. Farm La Serrana. 27.xi.2012. Julián Mendivil. On tree bark. Musenuv slide code: 32187.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the similarity between this species and A. elegans .

Group lichenatus

Figures

FIGURES 186–192. Steleops similis. sp. nov. Male. 186. Forewings. 187. Hindwing. 188. Head (frontal view). 189. Epiproct. 190. Paraproct. 191. Hypandrium. 192. Phallosome. Scales in mm.

FIGURES 179–185. Steleops viridis sp. nov. Female. 179. Forewings. 180. Hindwing. 181. Head (frontal view). 182. Left paraproct. 183. Epiproct. 184. Subgenital plate. 185. IX sternum and left gonapophyses. Scales in mm.