Elaphopsocus roeslerioides Román-Palacios, Obando & Aldrete, 2016, n. sp.
Creators: name: Román-Palacios, Cristian
name: Obando, Ranulfo González
name: García Aldrete, Alfonso N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Elaphopsocus
Elaphopsocus roeslerioides

description: Elaphopsocus roeslerioides n. sp. Male
(Figs 13–18)
Diagnosis. Belonging in Species Group III (Román-P. et al. 2015) as modified above. Hypandrium concave, with a pair of heavily sclerotized postero-lateral acuminate projections of mid length. Phallosome with side struts stout, independent; aedeagal arms stout, distally pointed; external parameres long, stout, distally with a pointed projection directed outwards. Related to E. roesleri, from which it differs in having the postero-lateral projections of the hypandrium approximately half as long, and in having the aedeagal arms and external parameres stouter (compare Fig. 15 with Fig. 45 in Román-P. et al. (2015).
Color (in 80% ethanol). Body light brown. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Frontal, fronto-genal, and fronto-clypeal sulci dark brown, postclypeus with dark brown bands as illustrated (Fig. 13). Genae creamy with dark colored margins. Antennae pale brown, scape unpigmented. Maxillary palpomeres dark brown. Coxae, trochanters, femora and tarsi brown, tibiae white. Forewing pattern (Fig. 16), with dark brown proximally, basal to the discal cell. Light brown spots over a hyaline background distally. Pterostigma with small brown spots. Veins brown (Fig. 16). Hindwing (Fig. 17), almost hyaline, with cell cup slightly darker. Abdomen uniformly light brown; hypandrium strongly pigmented posteriorly.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: vertex straight, with compound eyes not reaching the level of the vertex (Fig. 13). Pterostigma acute distally, slightly extended posteriorly towards Rs-M. Cell m wide, almost rectangular, crossvein between areola postica and M long (Fig. 6). Hypandrium broad (Fig. 18); phallosome elongate, with side struts separated anteriorly (Fig. 15). Paraprocts elongate, marginally sclerotized, with an elongate anterior “handle”, and a posterior stout prong (Fig. 14). Sensory fields with 24 trichobothria in pentalobed basal rosettes. Epiproct trapezoidal, marginally sclerotized, with a marginal field of setae (Fig. 14).
Measurements (in microns). FW: 4325, HW: 3861, IO: 532, D: 262, d: 154, IO/d: 3.45, Mx 4: 200, f1: 670, f2: 480, f3: 400, PO: 0.63.
Specimen studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Huila. Meremberg Nature Reserve, 02° 13' 06.6'' N: 76° 07' 01.1'' W, 2352 m, 11.ii.2016. MUSENUV slide code 26147, beating branches, R. González.
Etymology. The specific name refers to the similarity of this species with E. roesleri Román-P., González & García Aldrete.
description: Published as part of Román-Palacios, Cristian, Obando, Ranulfo González & García Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2016, Uncovering the diversity of the neotropical genus Elaphopsocus (' Psocoptera': Psocidae: Amphigerontiinae): from one to ten species, pp. 373-380 in Zootaxa 4162 (2) on page 377, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4162.2.11, http://zenodo.org/record/272323