Steleops huilensis 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 huilensis

description: Steleops huilensis sp. nov.
(Figs 117–123)
Diagnosis. Belonging to group albertonetoi. It shares with almost all the species of the group the characteristic of presenting hypandrium with two reniform laminar structures and two pairs of acuminate processes. As in S. caliensis has forewing with Rs-M fused into a short length and large brown spots, visible in many cells, R, M, CuA, CuP (Fig. 117). It differs from the other species of the group by presenting reniform laminar structures of the hypandrium small, about 0.3 the length of the hypandrium (Fig. 122) and in details of the phallosome.
Male. Color (In plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 119) with “Y”-shaped spot from the base of the eyes to the labrum, genae and light cream frons. Black compound eyes with cream space between the ommatidia. Forewings (Fig. 117) with brown spots forming three diagonal bars, veins brown. Hindwings (Fig. 118) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct and paraprocts light brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 119): H/MxW: 1.20; compound eyes large, H/D: 2.47; IO/MxW: 0.67. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with two broad denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.06. Forewings (Fig. 117): L/W: 2.62. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.33, areola postica: al/ah: 1.50. Hindwings (Fig. 118): l/w: 2.84. Clunium formed by two tergites. Hypandrium (Fig. 122) asymmetrical, with tongue-shaped medial band covered by very small papillae; with two reniform lateral processes, laminar and bending towards the middle of the hypandrium; with two pairs of stake-shaped processes, short, thin and of similar length. Hypandrium arms slender, stake-shaped, curved inward and apically blunt. Phallosome (Fig. 123); aedeagus apically acuminate, right margin with smooth curvature and small teeth. Epiproct (Fig. 121) projected on the clunium, rhomboid, with rounded posterior edge and anterior end with narrow projection, apically widened. Paraprocts (Fig. 120) oval, with apical process almost as long as the body of the paraproct, straight and truncated apically, sensory fields with 13 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 4325, HW: 3125, F: 900, T: 2000, t1: 825, t2: 175, ctt1: 39, f1: 900, f2: 900, f3: 700, f4: 575, f5: 400, f6: 375, f7: 250, f8: 250, Mx4: 180, IO: 440, d: 270, D: 320, IO/d: 1.63, PO: 0.84
Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Huila. Belén, Reserva Natural Meremberg. 02°13’06.6’’N: 76°07’01.1’’W. 2352 m. 20.i.2015. R. González. On tree bark. Musenuv slide code: 32198.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the department of Huila, Colombia, where the type locality of this species is located.
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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261