Steleops juliani 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 juliani

description: Steleops juliani sp. nov. Male
(Figs 152–158)
Diagnosis. With the general characteristics of the buitrerensis group. Due to the general shape of the hypandrium and phallosome it is more closely related to S. meremberg sp. nov., but unlike this one it presents the phallobase somewhat pointed and curved upwards basally (Fig. 158), right paramere of phallosome with few striae and the forewing with brown spots in anal, cup and cua cells.
Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 154) with wide dark brown spots from the basal margin of the compound eyes to the frontal area and epistomal suture, frons dark brown, clypeus and labrum brown, genae, postgenae and subgenae cream. Ochre to black compound eyes. Thorax brown, with small cream spots. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown, with cream spots. Thoracic pleura brown, with small cream spots. Forewing (Fig. 152) mostly hyalines, with small brown spots in anal, cup and cua cells, pterostigma with apical pale brown spot, apex of cells r5 and m1 with arch-shaped pale brown spot, veins brown, with few hyaline or pale areas. Hindwings (Fig. 154) hyalines, veins brown. Legs cream. Epiproct, paraprocts and phallosome pale brown to light brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown. Epiproct, paraprocts and phallosome pale brown to light brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 154): H/MxW: 1.05; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.00; IO/MxW: 0.77. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with five denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.26. Forewings (Fig. 152): L/W: 2.70. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.69, areola postica: al/ah: 1.26. Hindwings (Fig. 153): l/w: 2.81. Hypandrium (Fig. 157) asymmetrical, with medial area of numerous setae on tubercles arranged longitudinally, with teeth of uniform size on the left margin of the medial area, right margin with small and abundant stretch marks. Phallosome (Fig. 158) rhomboid, asymmetric, with right lobular paramere and with few striae, aedeagus narrower apically and curved to the right, phallobase somewhat pointed and curved upwards basally. Epiproct pyriform, with setae and abundant spicules as illustrated (Fig. 155). Paraprocts (Fig. 156) oval with abundant microspicules, straight apical process, shorter than the rest of the paraproct, ending in a small, curved hook, sensory fields with 19 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 5500, HW: 3800, F: 1200, T: 2575, t1: 1025, t2: 200, ctt1: 42, f1: 1225, f2: 1375, f3: 787.5, Mx4: 290, IO: 635, d: 330, D: 430, IO/d: 1.92, PO: 0.77.
Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Boyacá, Belén, Farm La Estancia, 6°0.0’ 15”N: 72°53’49”W. 2785 m. 23.v. 2017. J. Mendivil. On tree bark. P-1495. Musenuv slide code: 32203.
Etymology. The specific epithet is dedicated to Julián Mendivil, which collected and made available the specimen of this species.
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 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261