Steleops
Creators: name: Obando, Ranulfo González
name: Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
name: Carrejo, Nancy Soraya
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Steleops

description: Key to the South American species of Steleops
(Modified partially from Mockford, 1996).
1. Forewing entirely hyaline (male), at most with a spot on cell Cu2 (male and female)............................... 2
-. Forewing pigmented throughout, with large hyaline areas, or with pigment spots in basal and distal cells (male and female) 3
2. Forewing hyaline (male)............................................................... S. buitrerensis n. sp.
-. Forewing with a spot on cell Cu2................................................... S. pedunculatus (Enderlein)
3. Forewing with a distinct, transverse, irregular pigmented band from anterior end of pterostigma to distal end of 1A....... 4
-. Forewing not as above................................................................................. 6
4. Areola postica deeply pigmented distally.................................................................. 5
-. Areola postica with a pale brown spot along vein M, and a pale brown spot at distal end of Cu1a....... S. buitrerensis n. sp.
5. Head with a brown band from each compound eye to ocellar group, a brown band from each compound eye to epistomal sul- cus, above antennal fossae, and a brown triangle from ocellae group to epistomal sulcus......... S. conipata García Aldrete
-. Head not as above, a brown band from each compound eye to epistomal sulcus, enclosing antennal fossae, and a single, slender brown band from each compound eye to epistomal sulcus......................................... S. pulcher New
6. Forewing pterostigma entirely pigmented, at most with an upper and lower row of four small clear lacunae.............. 7
-. Forewing pterostigma pigmented only posteriorly........................................................... 9
7. Areola postica unpigmented, cell M3 unpigmented or almost unpigmented........................................ 8
-. Areola postica deeply pigmented along Cu1a, cell M3 entirely pigmented, with small, clear lacunae................................................................................................... S. tambopata García Aldrete
8. Posterior half of forewing without pigment spots, pale brown spots basally in cells R, D, Cu1b and at nodulus................................................................................................... S. purus Mockford
-. Pigment spots basally and on posterior half of forewing.................................. S. wygodzynskyi Mockford
9. Distal veins of forewing lacking spots at their junctions to wing margin, forewing~ 3.0 mm long........ S. maculates New
-. Distal veins of forewing each with a spot at junctions to wing margin, forewing> 3.5 mm long.... S. punctipennis Enderlein
description: Published as part of Obando, Ranulfo González, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Carrejo, Nancy Soraya, 2011, A new species of Steleops Enderlein, and a Colombian record of S. pulcher New (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae), pp. 23-27 in Zootaxa 2735 on page 26, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.203095