Steleops braziliensis 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 braziliensis

description: Steleops braziliensis sp. nov.
(Figs 69–75)
Diagnosis. Belonging to group albertonetoi. It presents the forewing with Rs-M fused into a short length, as in S. machupichuensis, S. caliensis sp. nov. and S. huilensis sp. nov. But unlike all the species in the group, it has the medial laminar structures of the hypandrium with small and large teeth on some of its margins (Fig. 74). In addition, it has rounded spots on the radial and medial cells (Fig. 69) and circular compound eyes (Fig. 71).
Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head (Fig. 71) pale brown. Black compound eyes. Forewings (Fig. 69) with very poorly marked brown spots in the cells and with four rounded spots in cells r3, r5, m1, m2 and m3. Hindwings (Fig. 70) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct and paraprocts light brown (Figs 72 and 73). Hypandrium (Fig. 74) brown. Legs pale brown.
Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 71): H/MxW: 1.25; compound eyes large, elongated, H/D: 1.97; IO/MxW: 0.53. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, without denticles. Forewings (Fig. 69): L/W: 2.68. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 2.70, areola postica: al/ah: 1.46. Hindwings (Fig. 70): l/w: 3.08. Hypandrium (Fig. 74) asymmetrical, with medial band covered by very small papillae; with two lamellar lateral processes that curve towards the mesal line, small and large teeth on some of its margins; with two pairs of short acuminate processes. Hypandrium arms narrow, stake-shaped, curved inward and apically rounded. Phallosome (Fig. 75) rhomboid, asymmetric, with rounded, poorly developed left paramere and long, apically rounded right paramere, surpassing the apex of the aedeagus. Epiproct (Fig. 72) projected on the clunium, rhomboid, with trapezoidal posterior margin and anterior area with narrow projection. Paraprocts (Fig. 73) oval, with apical process almost as long as the body of the paraproct, straight, strongly curved at the end and acuminate apically, sensory fields with 20 trichobothria on basal rosettes.
Measurements (microns). FW: 2750, HW: 2000, f1: 700, f2: 600, IO: 290, d: 310, D: 350, IO/d: 0.94, PO: 0.89
Material studied. Holotype Male. BRASIL Amazonas, Manaus, Parque Laranjeiras. 3°7'31.307''S, 59°59'20.878''W. 15-20.i-ii.1982. Plate code: P-555. Joao & Nanato. CDC trap.
Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Brazil, the country where the holotype was collected.
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 25, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5605.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15214261