Triplocania caribe González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García 2017, n. sp.
Creators: name: González-Obando, Ranulfo
name: Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy
name: García, Alfonso N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Ptiloneuridae
Triplocania
Triplocania caribe

description: Triplocania caribe n. sp. Female
(Figs 105–109)
Diagnosis. Subgenital plate with wide, central unpigmented area; pigmented area broadly U-shaped (Fig. 108). Ninth sternum wider anteriorly, slightly concave in the middle, narrower posteriorly, deeply concave in the middle. A mesal, transverse, bow-shaped pigmented band, and one small pigmented area posteriorly, on each side of the longitudinal midline (Fig. 109).
Color (in 80% ethanol). Body brown. Compound eyes ochre; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern (Fig. 107); vertex cream; front with brown crossbands between the inner border of the compound eyes, the uppermost irregular, above the ocelli, the lower one touching the ocellar group, each half with a band to the epistomal sulcus; postclypeus with irregular, brown V-shaped area; anteclypeus and labrum brown; genae dark brown; antennae with scape and pedicel pale brown. Pronotum cream, meso- and metanotum brown, with pale areas; thoracic pleurae brown, lower metepimeron and sternum cream. Legs pale brown, tibiae and tarsi darker. Forewings almost hyaline, with pale brown spots proximally, pterostigma with proximal and distal brown bands; distal third lost. Hindwings missing. Abdomen cream, with ochre subcuticular spots on tergites and sternites. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown, with dark brown subcuticular spots.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 107): H/MxW: 1.57; H/D: 2.65, IO/MxW: 0.63, MxW/IO: 2.37. Vertex slightly emarginate, slightly below the level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with five denticles. Forewings (Fig. 105): lp/wp: 6.44. Subgenital plate (Fig. 108), wide, triangular, with broadly rounded posterior border, with dense field of medium-sized setae. Gonapophyses (Fig. 109): v1 elongate, slender, acuminate; v2 +3 with almost parallel sides; a row of 14 setae on v2, two distinctly longer than the others; distal process long, acuminate, with abundant microsetae. Paraprocts broad, oval (Fig. 106), widely rounded posteriorly, with setal field on distal half; sensory fields with 26 trichobothria on basal rosettes. Epiproct triangular (Fig. 106) almost as long as wide, anterior border slightly concave in the middle, setal field as illustrated.
Measurements. F:1687, T: 2787, t1: 1262, t2:100, ctt1:39, IO: 500, D: 475, d: 337, IO/d: 1.48, PO: 0.71.
Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Norte de Santander. Aguas Calientes, National Natural Park Tamá, 7º 20’N: 72º 29’ W, 1970 m, IAvH, E146167. One female paratype, same locality, IavH, E145967b (MAH).
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the Caribe Indians.
description: Published as part of González-Obando, Ranulfo, Carrejo-Gironza, Nancy & García, Alfonso N., 2017, New species of Colombian Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Ptiloneuridae), pp. 1-113 in Zootaxa 4336 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4336.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1035261