Steleops caliensis González-Obando, Calderón-Martínez, Carrejo-Gironza & Manchola, 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: González-Obando, Ranulfo
name: Calderón-Martínez, Nadia R.
name: Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy S.
name: Manchola, Oscar Fernando Saenz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Steleops
Steleops caliensis

description: Steleops caliensis sp. nov.
(Figs 76–88)
Diagnosis. Belonging to the albertonetoi group. Unlike S. albertonetoi and S. machupicchuensis, it has forewing with brown spots in the medial and radial cells (Figs 76 and 83). It differs from S. ecuadorensis sp. nov. for presenting the medial spines of the hypandrium that are thinner and straighter (Fig. 81). From S. huilensis sp. nov., due to the hypandrium's spines being wider, longer and straighter.
Male. Color (On plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 78) cream to yellow, with Y-shaped brown spot from the base of the compound eyes to the anteclypeus, ocellar tubercle dark brown to ochre, black compound eyes. Legs cream yellow, coxae basally brown. Forewings mostly hyaline (Fig. 76), with some brown spots on the cells and veins. Hindwings (Fig. 77) completely hyaline, with brown veins. Epiproct (Fig. 100) and paraprocts (Fig. 101) pale brown. Hypandrium (Fig. 102) and phallosome brown (Fig. 103).
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 78): H/MxW: 1.00; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.17; IO/MxW: 0.74. Vertex shaped like a wide inverted arch, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with two very short and widened denticles or neither; Mx4/Mx2: 1.18. Forewings (Fig. 76): L/W: 2.54. Pterostigma curved distally: lp/wp: 3.46, areola postica: al/ah: 2.00. Hindwings (Fig. 77): l/w: 2.71. Hypandrium symmetrical (Fig. 81), with tongue-shaped medial band covered by abundant papillae, with two lateral reniform lamellar processes that bend towards the medial part of the hypandrium; with two pairs of fusiform, well-sclerotized processes (acuminate), the posterior pair thicker and longer. Hypandrium arms narrow and curved inwards. Phallosome (Fig. 82) rhomboid, a closed frame, phallobase anteriorly projected, proximally somewhat widened and sclerotized only on its margins; left paramere, poorly developed, in the form of a poorly sclerotized lobe; right paramere well developed, distally rounded; aedeagus distally acuminate and posteriorly curved, one of its margins with sharp small teeth. Epiproct piriform, (Fig. 100) projected onto the clunium as a long, narrow, and apically rounded medial anterior process. Paraprocts (Fig. 80) semi-oval in lateral view, with apical medial process substraight, shorter than the body of the paraproct and slightly rounded apically, sensory fields with 38 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 3875, HW: 2775, F: 850, T: 1700, t1: 750, t2: 925, ctt1: 33, f1: 1025, f2: 900, Mx4: 200, IO: 480, d: 260, D: 300, IO/d: 1.85, PO: 0.87
Female. Color (On plate and 80% ethanol). Essentially as in male. Forewings (Fig. 83) with spots like those of the male, but more extended, forming stripes; veins brown. Epiproct, paraprocts, leaflets and subgenital plate pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 85): H/MxW: 1.24; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.29; IO/MxW: 0.69. Vertex cleft with sinuous edges, V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Genae sinuous. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with four short denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 2.22. Forewings (Fig. 83): L/W: 2.65. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.09, areola postica: al/ah: 1.33. Hindwings (Fig. 84): l/w: 2.79. Subgenital plate bell-shaped (Fig. 86), with four long subapical setae and numerous shorter apical setae. Gonapophyses (Fig. 88) with long and narrow ventral valve, sub rectangular, dorsal valve with narrow and short lateroapical process, oval external valve with wide subtriangular medial apical process. Ninth sternum with bilobular anterior margin, posterior margin sub straight, gonopore demarcated by well-defined pigmented area (Fig. 88). Epiproct (Fig. 86) subtrapezoidal. Paraprocts (Fig. 86) subtriangular, sensory fields with 24 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 3400, HW: 2550, F: 830, T: 1625, t1: 740, t2: 180, ctt1: 33, Mx4: 210, f1: 725, f2: 725, f3: 625, IO: 430, D: 360, d: 280, IO/d: 1.54.
Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. Santiago de Cali. San Antonio. Farm San Francisco. 3°29’30.7’’N: 76°37’09.0’’W. 1875 m. 15.i.2012. R. González. On tree bark. Musenuv slide code: 32190. Paratypes: 1 female. Same data as holotype, Musenuv slide code: 32191. 1 male, Santiago de Cali. Quebrada Honda. 3° 26' 01.8''N 76° 38' 40.3''W. 1900 m. 23.i.2013. Musenuv slide code: 32192. N. Calderon and R. González. On tree bark. 1 female. Same location and collector. 03.i.2013. Musenuv slide code: 32193.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the municipality of Santiago de Cali, the town where the studied specimens were collected.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 5605 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261