Steleops garcialdretei, 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 : 34-37

Steleops garcialdretei sp. nov.

( Figs 110–116 )

Diagnosis. Belonging to group albertonetoi . As in S. ecuadorensis and S. caquetensis it has forewing with Rs-M joined by a short transverse vein ( Fig. 110 ) and compound eyes large, almost round.As in other species of the group, it has hypandrium with two medial projections laminar, reniform and four acuminate processes, but it differs from those because it has phallosome with apex of aedeagus and right paramere almost at the same level ( Fig. 116 ) and in details of the phallosome, hypandrium and head.

Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head ( Fig. 112 ) pale brown, with brown spots on vertex, frons, genae and clypeus. Dark brown compound eyes. Forewings ( Fig. 110 ) with pale brown spots, with small spots in the cells r 1, r 3, r 5, m 1, and m 2. Pterostigma with brown apical spot, veins brown. Hindwings ( Fig. 111 ) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct and paraproct light brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 112 ): H/MxW: 1.09; compound eyes large, H/D: 1.69; IO/MxW: 0.65. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with three broad denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 2.83. Forewings ( Fig. 110 ): L/W: 2.50. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 2.73, areola postica: al/ah: 1.00. Hindwings ( Fig. 111 ): l/w: 2.83. Hypandrium asymmetrical ( Fig. 115 ), with tongue-shaped medial band covered by very small papillae or spicules; with two large reniform laminar processes that bend toward the mesal line, with two pairs of thick tapered processes, the anterior pair are basally farther apart than the posterior pair, arms thick, curved inwards. Phallosome ( Fig. 116 ) rhomboid, asymmetric, with poorly developed left paramere, the right one in the form of an apically rounded lobe, partially fused to the aedeagus and apically almost at the same level as the aedeagus, the latter distally projected as a lobe. Phallobase projected, laminar and anteriorly rounded. Epiproct ( Fig. 113 ) projected on the clunium, with rounded posterior edge and anterior area with narrow projection. Paraprocts ( Fig. 114 ) oval, with apical process almost as long as the body of the paraproct, straight and apically curved, sensory fields with 27 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (microns). FW: 2875, HW: 2125, F: 625, T: 1350, t1: 500, t2: 150, ctt1: 24, f1: 675, f2: 675, f3: 500, f4: 425, f5: 325, f6: 325, f7: 250, Mx4: 170, IO: 350, d: 300, D: 350, IO/d: 1.17, PO: 0.86

Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Caquetá, San Vicente del Caguán, Laureles, Reserva Indígena Altamira , 2º27’50.14”N: 74º55’2.06”W, 917 m. 26-27.III.2017. Led light trap in forest canopy. J. Panche. Musenuv slide code: 32197.

Etymology. This species is dedicated to Alfonso Neri Garcia Aldrete, in recognition of his great contribution to the knowledge of Neotropical psocids.

Figures

FIGURES 110–116. Steleops gacialdretei sp. nov. Male. 110. Forewings. 111. Hindwing. 112. Head (frontal view). 113. Epiproct. 114. Paraproct. 115. Hypandrium. 116. Phallosome. Scales in mm.