Trichadenotecnum barrerai Yoshizawa & Aldrete & Mockford 2008, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Yoshizawa, Kazunori
name: Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
name: Mockford, Edward L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Trichadenotecnum
Trichadenotecnum barrerai

description: TRICHADENOTECNUM BARRERAI SP. NOV.   Material examined: Holotype. Male, Mexico: Chiapas, Reserva de la Biósfera El Triunfo, Ca. Sta. Rita. Vereda hacia Cañada Honda, 1860 m, 6.v.1993, ANGA & E. Barrera (UNAM).   
 Etymology: The specific epithet honours Ernesto Barrera (Instituto de Biología, UNAM), one of the holotype collectors, friend and colleague of ANGA.   
 Description: Male. Head. White in ground colour; vertical and orbital markings large, blackish brown; coronal suture black; frontal suture bordered with brown band dorsally; frons with two pairs of pale brown bands; gena blackish brown with white spot medially; eye black, IO/D = 1.2; ocelli white, ocellar field black; antennal socket bordered with blackish brown band; postclypeus with eight rows of faint brown spots, fused with each other ventrally forming a large blackish brown marking, ventro-lateral corner white; anteclypeus blackish brown. Antenna pale brown, scape and pedicel darker. Mouth parts blackish brown.   
 Thorax. Prothorax blackish brown. Mesonotum pale brown; anterior surface of scutum blackish brown; anterior margin of lateral lobe of scutum black; anterior margin of scutellum blackish brown; postnotum brown. Metanotum brown, with pale oval spot on posterior region of each lateral lobe of scutum; medial lobe with white spot posteriorly; scutellum blackish brown. Meso- and metapleurites blackish brown except membranous region white.   
 Legs. Blackish brown; tibiae and fore coxa paler; fore and middle femora with pale brown portions at middle and distal end.   
 Forewing (Fig. 36D). Spots in cell a 1 small, basal one faint. Opposing spots in cell r large, posterior spot placed proximal to anterior one. Proximal band broad in posterior half, interrupted just beyond fork of M + Cu, strongly constricted at anterior end in cell CuA, including circular light area. Median spots sparse. Distal band broad. Spot on roof of cell m 3 broad and dark. Submarginal spots apparent, large; spots in cell r 5 and m 1 larger than others; spot in cell m 3 smaller and paler, partly fused with spot on roof of cell m 3. Marginal clouds apparent, dark. Hindwing. Hyaline with faint brown marking in cell CuP, with longitudinal brown marking in cell r 1 along R1; veins brown.   
 Abdomen. White, each segment with blackish brown band ventrally, extending to lateral region. Terminalia. Clunial arm (Fig. 40A) broad, axeshaped, distal part covered with small denticles. Anterior margin of 8th sternum (Fig. 40C) with shallow incision at middle, broadly fused with hypandrium poseriorly. Epiproct lobe (Fig. 40B) semicircular in posterior view, dorsal margin with pair of tongue-like lobes projected dorso-laterally. Hypandrium (Fig. 40C): left and right processes long, directed postero-internally, then slightly arched, and directed inward apically, slightly broadened near apices, pointed at apices. Phallosome (Fig. 40D, E) with pair of short, needle-like processes closely approximated. Phallobase almost parallel sided, widest near anterior end, anterior margin slightly concave.   
 Length. B 2.4; FW 3.5; HW 2.6.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Distribution: Mexico.
description: Published as part of Yoshizawa, Kazunori, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Mockford, Edward L., 2008, Systematics and biogeography of the New World species of Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae), pp. 651-723 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (4) on pages 705-706, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00398.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5446195