Steleops tenerife 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 tenerife

description: Steleops tenerife sp. nov.
(Figs 166–172)
Diagnosis. Belonging to group buitrerensis. Due to the characteristics of the hypandrium, it is closer to S. enderleini, but it differs from it because the head has a dark brown vertex, the compound eyes (Fig. 168) are longer than wide (rate 1.32) and the right paramere is not as pigmented as in S. enderleini (Fig. 172).
Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 168) with vertex, frons, clypeus and labrum dark brown, genae and post genae cream. Ochre to black compound eyes. Forewing (Fig. 166) hyalines, veins brown, anal cell basally and pterostigma brown. Hindwing (Fig. 167) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct, paraprocts and phallosome pale brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 168): H/MxW: 1.26; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.51; IO/MxW: 0.88. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with five denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.61. Forewings (Fig. 166): L/W: 2.63. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.86, areola postica: al/ah: 1.32. Hindwings (Fig. 167): l/w: 2.86. Hypandrium (Fig. 171) asymmetrical, with medial band of numerous setae on tubercles arranged longitudinally; with approximately 14 teeth of uniform size on the left margin of the medial band, right margin with small and abundant striae. Phallosome (Fig. 172) rhomboid, asymmetric, with right lobular paramere short, aedeagus acuminate apically and curved to the right, widely articulated to the right paramere. Epiproct pyriform, with setae and some spicules as illustrated (Fig. 169). Paraprocts (Fig. 170) oval with setae as illustrated, straight apical process, shorter than the rest of the paraproct, ending in a small, curved hook, sensory fields with 40 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 5350, HW: 3737.5, F: 1125, T: 2512.5, t1: 1025, t2: 200, ctt1: 41, f1: 1425, f2: 1350, f3: 1112.5, f4: 840, f5: 457.5, f6: 412.5, f7: 275, f8: 237.5, f9: 225, f10: 200, f11: 212.5, Mx4: 290, IO: 650, d: 280, D: 370, IO/d: 2.32, PO: 0.76.
Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. El Cerrito, Tenerife, Natural Reserve El Pailón, 03°42’16.7”N: 76°03’54.3”W, 2235 m. 5.vii.2019. R. Gonzalez. Shannon light trap. Musenuv slide code: 32205.
Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition; this is dedicated to the population of Tenerife (Valle del Cauca), where the holotype was found.
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 48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261