Steleops chamelaensis Obando, García & Carrejo, 2011, n. sp.
Creators: name: Obando, Ranulfo González
name: García, Alfonso N.
name: Carrejo, Nancy Soraya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Steleops
Steleops chamelaensis

description: Steleops chamelaensis n. sp. (Female)
(Figs. 12−16)
Color (in 80% alcohol). Head and thorax brown, abdomen creamy white, with dark areas as indicated below. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern (Fig. 13): wide brown area from lower ends of compound eyes, through postclypeus and labrum. Postclypeus with pale brown diagonal striae, labrum brown. Antennae: Scape brown, pedicel and flagellum creamy white; maxillary palpomeres creamy white. Prothoracic coxae creamy white, meso and metathoracic coxae brown; trochanter, femur, tibia and tarsi creamy white, hind tarsi basally brown, pretarsus brown. Tergal lobes and pleura of meso- and metathorax dark brown. Abdomen creamy white, with brown narrow bands on tergum and sternum of each segment, pleura creamy white, epiproct and paraprocts creamy white.
Fore wings (Fig. 12) maculate, without defined brown pigmented transverse band, but with large brown spots from anterior end of pterostigma to CuP. Pterostigma with a dark brown irregular spot posteriorly; veins R 2+3, R4+5, M1-M3 and Cu 1a distally with pale brown spots, areola postica with brown area near M, other brown spots and hyaline windows as illustrated. Hind wings hyaline, veins creamy white or translucid, veins M, M-CuA, Rs-M, and CuA at the central part of the wing pale brown.
Morphology. Head almost straight at vertex, compound eyes not pedunculate, almost as long as its maximum width, H/MxW: 0.98; MxW/MnW: 1.48; compound eyes oval, C: 45 microns. Antennal flagellomeres with short, sparse setae. Fore wing (Fig. 12): L/W: 2.82. Pterostigma much wider posteriorly, lp/lw: 2.7; almost straight posteriorly; Rs slightly curved and shorter than R 2+3 and R 4+5; Rs-M fused for a short distance. Cell M pentagonal, areola postica trapeziform. Hind wing Rs-M fused, Rs almost five times as long as the fused length; vein R 4+5 1.6 times as long as Rs. Subgenital plate (Fig. 15) broad, with scattered setae on the surface; posterior projection short, almost truncate posteriorly, broad and with macrosetae along posterior margin. Ninth sternum broad, membranous. Gonapophyses (Fig. 14): V1 long, slender, distally pointed, with field of microsetae distally along inner margin; V2 short, distally straight, with microsetae along posterior border; V3 oval, with posterior triangular projection, with row of macrosetae along posterior margin. Paraprocts broadly triangular (Fig. 16) with row of macrosetae along outer margin; sensory fields with 18−20 trichobothria issuing from basal rosettes. Epiproct basally wide, almost trapeziform, widely rounded distally, with setae along postero-lateral border.
Measurements. FW: 2363, HW: 1850, F: 513, T: 1025, t1: 375, t2: 95, ctt1: 19, Mx4: 142, f1: 560, IO: 396, D: 240, d: 235, IO/d: 1.69.
Specimen studied. Holotype female. MEXICO. Jalisco. Chamela. UNAM Tropical Biology Station, 19°30’N: 105°03’W, 100m. 18.vi.1979, beating branches of Ficus sp. A. N. García Aldrete. CNIN.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the type locality.
description: Published as part of Obando, Ranulfo González, García, Alfonso N. & Carrejo, Nancy Soraya, 2011, New species of Steleops (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae) from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, pp. 28-54 in Zootaxa 3139 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207655