Steleops meremberg 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 meremberg

description: Steleops meremberg sp. nov.
(Figs 159–165)
Diagnosis. Belonging to group buitrerensis. It is more closely related to S. juliani sp. nov., but unlike this one it presents the phallobase widened and truncated basally (Fig. 165), right paramere with pronounced striae and the forewing without brown spots in anal, cup and cua cells (Fig. 159).
Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 161) with two diagonal spots from the basal margin of the compound eyes to the ocellar area and epistomal suture, frons, clypeus and labrum dark brown, genae, postgenae and subgenae cream. Ochre to black compound eyes. Forewing (Fig. 159) hyalines, veins brown, anal cell basally pale brown. Hindwings (Fig. 160) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct, paraprocts and phallosome pale brown to light brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 161): H/MxW: 1.15; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.43; IO/MxW: 0.71. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with six-eight denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.10. Forewings (Fig. 159): L/W: 2.60. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.56, areola postica: al/ah: 1.33. Hindwings (Fig. 160): l/w: 2.94. Hypandrium (Fig. 164) asymmetrical, with medial band of numerous setae on tubercles arranged longitudinally, with teeth of uniform size on the left margin of the medial band, right margin with small and abundant stretch marks. Phallosome (Fig. 165) rhomboid, asymmetric, with right lobular paramere and with well-marked striae, aedeagus apically acuminate and curved to the right. Epiproct pyriform, with setae and abundant spicules as illustrated (Fig. 162). Paraprocts (Fig. 163) oval with abundant microspicules, straight apical process, shorter than the rest of the paraproct, ending in a small, curved hook, sensory fields with 36 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 5462.5, HW: 3900, F: 1237.5, T: 2580, t1: 1057.5, t2: 200, ctt1: 47, f1: 1292.5, f2: 1400, f3: 1400, f4: 932.5, f5: 775, f6: 505, f7: 425, f8: 350, f9: 325, f10: 287.5, f11: 250, Mx4: 313, IO: 600, d: 305, D: 400, IO/d: 1.97, PO: 0.76.
Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Huila. Belén, Meremberg, 02°13’ 08.25’’N 76° 07’01.18’’W. 2310 m. 13.x.2018. R. Gonzalez. On tree bark. Musenuv slide code: 32204.
Etymology. The specific epithet is a non in apposition, is dedicated to the Meremberg Nature Reserve (Huila), where the holotype was found.
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 pages 44-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261