Steleops bolivianus 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 bolivianus

description: Steleops bolivianus sp. nov.
(Figs 193–199)
Diagnosis. Unlike S. lichenatus, it presents phallosome with markedly asymmetric parameres (Fig. 199), the left one more sclerotized and with spicules. It differs from L. ortegae by presenting spurious colorless spots, from S. plenitudensis for presenting the process as a right paramere with spicules and from S. cumbrensis sp. nov., because the hypandrium lacks tubercles covered with denticles in the anterior region and denticles in the medial structure (Fig. 198).
Color (On plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 195) brown, with some darker spots. Black compound eyes. Forewings (Fig. 193) proximally almost completely brown, excepting transverse hyaline areas and stripes; distal half brown with large hyaline areas reaching to apical margin of radial, medial and cubital cells; middle area between the proximal and distal part with a large hyaline cross-sectional area from the vicinity of the pterostigma to the postica areola. Pterostigma dark brown with small hyaline areas. Veins brown with small unpigmented droplet-like areas coming out of the veins, like spurious veins. Hindwings (Fig. 194) almost hyalines, with light brown costal area and brown veins. Epiproct (Fig. 196), paraprocts (Fig. 197) and phallosome brown (Fig. 199). Legs light cream, coxae brown, femora basally brown, medially with small brown spots, tibiae with two small brown spots in the distal area.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 195): H/MxW: 1.18; compound eyes large, H/D: 2.83, not pedunculated, upper margin of the eyes does not exceed the vertex; IO/MxW: 0.93. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes, gently emarginate medially, laterally slightly convex. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with two o no defined denticle; Mx4/Mx2: 1.75. Forewings (Fig. 193): L/W: 2.19. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 1.93, apically wider, with almost straight distal curvature; vein 1A with pocket-like protuberance; areola postica: al/ah: 1.58. Hindwings (Fig. 194): l/w: 2.46. Hypandrium (Fig. 198) subtriangular, with very narrow strap-like medial band. Phallosome (Fig. 199) rhomboid, aedeagus flattened and widened, apical margin with pronounced concavity, right paramere poorly developed in the form of a very small lobe, left paramere highly sclerotized, apically rounded, distal-apical margins with elongated spines. Epiproct (Fig. 196) projected on the clunium, with a broadly rounded anterior projection and a hyaline mesal bulge, with a clearly demarcated hyaline posterior area and with setae. Paraprocts (Fig. 197) oval, with thick hook-shaped lateroapical process, strongly curved, sensory fields with 23 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 3125, HW: 2150, F: 550, T: 1150, t1: 375, t2: 150, ctt1: 35, f1: 270, f2: 250, f3: 230, f4: 180, f5: 170, f6: 150, f7: 150, f8: 120, f9: 120, f10: 120, f11: 70, Mx4: 120, IO: 510, d: 200, D: 230, IO/d: 2.55, PO: 0.87
Material studied. Holotype Male. BOLIVIA. La Paz, 6 km south of Coripata. 16°20.607'S, 67°37.420'W. 1320 m. 05.iv.2004. A. N. García Aldrete. On rock. Musenuv slide code: 32188.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Bolivia, the country where the studied specimen was 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 pages 53-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261