Triplocania matildae Gonzalez, Carrejo & Garcia Aldrete.
Creators: name: González-Obando, Ranulfo
name: Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy
name: García, Alfonso N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Ptiloneuridae
Triplocania
Triplocania matildae

description: Triplocania matildae González, Carrejo & García Aldrete. Male
(Figs 139–144)
Diagnosis. Belonging in species group trifida, of Group IBC (see Discussion below). It differs from T. trifida Silva-Neto, García Aldrete & Rafael, in the forewing pattern of pigmentation, in the shape of the areola postica, narrower and taller in T. matildae, in the central sclerite of the hypandrium, less wide and having the lateral posterior processes longer and straight than in T. matildae, in having the sides struts of the phallosome slender, and in having the endophallic sclerites completely different than those in T. matildae (compare Figs 139, 143 and 144 in this paper, with Figs 28, 31 and 32 in Silva-Neto, García Aldrete & Rafael (2015), to see the differences. IX sternum broader posteriorly, with the anterior, transverse pigmented band wider.
Color (in 80% ethanol). Body brown, with pale brown and ochre spots. Head pale brown, with dark brown pattern (Fig. 141). Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Maxillary palps pale brown, Mx4 darker distally. Antennae pale brown, flagellomeres with cream apices. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown; pleurae pale brown, with small ochre spots. Legs pale brown; coxae, trochanters and femora with dark spots, tibiae pale brown, brown distally, tarsomeres 1 pale brown, tarsomeres 2–3 brown. Forewings hyaline, with brown marginal band from R 4+5 to CuA 1 (Fig. 139), pterostigma with pale brown band distally, veins brown, with brown spots at veins ends. Hindwings hyaline, veins brown (Fig. 140). Abdomen pale brown, with ochre areas; hypandrium, paraprocts and epiproct brown; endophallic sclerites brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 141): H/MxW: 1.41; H/D: 2.93; IO/MxW: 0.78. Vertex slightly emarginate, above the level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with six denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.13. Forewings (Fig. 139): L/W: 2.49. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 6.82.Areola postica high, almost reaching M, la/ha: 1.53. CuA 1 strongly concave distally. Hindwings (Fig. 140): l/p: 2.65. Anterior pair of endophallic sclerites transverse, with short pointed processes proximally; lateral sclerites long, wider distally, proximally rounded, slightly curved inward; posterior sclerites dilated distally, like a golf club head; mesal sclerite triangular, with long, slender, antero-lateral processes curved outward, distally acuminate, each with an acuminate short projection on outer third of posterior border. Hypandrium (Fig. 143) of three sclerites. Phallosome (Fig. 144). Paraprocts oval, with abundant medium and short sized setae on apical third, one macroseta with spatulate apex; sensory fields with 33 trichobothria on basal rosettes (Fig. 142). Epiproct (Fig. 142) wide, triangular, rounded posteriorly, setae as illustrated.
Measurements. FW: 6850, HW: 4510, F: 1600, T: 2975, t1: 1325, t2: 133, t3: 200, ctt1: 36, f1: 1225, f2: 1300, f3: 1125, f4: 950, f5: 550, f6: 450, f7: 390, f8: 350, f9: 300, f10: 292, f11: 307, Mx4: 360, IO: 696, d: 303, D: 430, IO/d: 2.30, PO: 0.70.
Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Huila. Belén, Cascada La Candelaria, 02°13’36.0’’N: 76°07’27.4’’ W, 2128 m. 14.X.2018. R. González. Beating tree branches with moss. MUSENUV slide code 29952. 1 male, Meremberg Foundation, 02°13′22″N: 76°07’40.8”W, 2731 m. 14.X.2018. N. Vargas. Beating tree branches with moss.
description: Published as part of González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2021, New species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Ptiloneuridae) from Colombia and Peru, pp. 1-63 in Zootaxa 5080 (1) on pages 47-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5080.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5766489