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

description: Key to Neotropical Steleops species
1. Males............................................................................................... 2
-. Females............................................................................................ 10
2. Fore wings extensively pigmented, with large, brown areas, vein A with a large flap................................. 3
-. Fore wings hyaline, or not pigmented as above, vein A without a flap........................................... 4
3. Fore wings with areola postica almost totally pigmented, Rs-M diverging from a point; sides of hypandrium and posterior projection denticulate, phallosome distally pointed.......................................... S. barrerai García Aldrete
-. Fore wings with areola postica almost totally hyaline; Rs-M fused for a short length; sides of hypandrium and posterior projection smooth, phallosome distally with two projections (Figs. 55−60)............................ S. plenitudensis n. sp.
4. Fore wings pigmented, with well defined brown spots; pterostigma little widened distally (lp/wp: 4.3−5.0)............. 5
-. Fore wings hyaline, at most with small brown spots proximally; pterostigma distinctly wider distally, lp/wp ratio less than 4.0.................................................................................................... 7
5. Fore wings long, slender, ratio L/W: 3.48, with medium sized brown spots, and many small, round spots; epiproct with slender posterior projection; hypandrium with two distal, acuminate processes, flanking a central area with a dense row of setae posteriorly, phallosome with a broad, distal process, with field of spines along posterior border (Figs. 33−38)..................................................................................................... S. manizalensis n. sp.
-. Fore wings shorter than above, ratio L/W less than 3.0; FW pattern, epiproct, hypandrium and phallosome not as above... 6
6. Fore wings with radial series of brown spots distally, on cells R, R2+3, R4+5, M1 and M2; epiproct with two distal, smooth side lobes, hypandrium with a central, elongate, strongly sclerotized body, distally divided in two curved projections, denticulate on inner edge, phallosome long, with side arms stout, ending distally in a rounded, rugose body.................................................................................................. S. monticola García Aldrete
-. Fore wings with proximal and distal brown spots, but without radial spots as above; epiproct with two distal, rounded lobes, bearing each a field of microspines; central strap of hypandrium with sides distinctly sclerotized; phallosome ending distally in wide spatulate process............................................................. S. wygodzynskyi Mockford
7. Fore wings completely hyaline......................................................................... 8
-. Fore wings with small brown spots proximally, on cells R-Cu, Cu-Cu2 and Cu2.................................. 9
8. Epiproct wide at base, with a median, slender posterior projection, distally rounded; hypandrium asymmetric, with a row of denticles along one side, and two small mesal apophyses; phallosome distally pointed, with two side flaps; clunium without projections.................................................................. S. buitrerensis González et al.
-. Epiproct longer than wide, postero-lateral corners round, protruding; hypandrium symmetric, sides of central strap with a row
of mid sized denticles; phallosome with two rounded lobes distally; clunium with elongate, distally curved projections bearing short spines on surface, flanking paraprocts and epiproct (Figs. 44−49)............................. S. mendivili n. sp. 9. Epiproct broadly pear-shaped, median posterior projection slender; mid strap of hypandrium bearing a dense field of short, coarse spines; two reniform bodies at base, and two pairs of pointed apophyses, an anterior and a posterior pair; phallosome distally with two projections, one stout, broadly triangular, and an elongate, distally rounded one, bearing short spines (Figs. 3−7)................................................................................ S. albertonetoi n. sp.
-. Epiproct as above, but median posterior projection stout; mid strap of hypandrium bearing a dense field of minute, slender spines; reniform bodies and acuminate apophyses as above; phallosome almost as above: triangular projection long, slender, the rounded projection bearing spines only on posterior border (Figs. 22−27)................. S. machupicchuensis n. sp.
10. Fore wings almost totally hyaline; pterostigma widest approximately in the middle................................. 11
-. Fore wings distinctly pigmented; pterostigma widest distally.................................................. 12
11. Fore wings with small brown spot at confluence of Rs-R2+3-R4+5; subgenital plate with median process slender, pointed, setose (Figs. 50−54)....................................................................... S. mendivili n. sp.
-. Fore wings with a small brown spot on cell Cu1; subgenital plate with median process stout, projected in the middle, glabrous.............................................................................. S. pedunculatus (Enderlein)
12. Fore wings with a flap on vein A....................................................................... 13
-. Fore wings without a flap on vein A...................................................................... 15
13. Fore wings with a slender, transverse, brown band proximally from mid R to A; areola postica and cell M mostly hyaline. 14
-. Fore wings without a proximal, pigmented transverse band; areola postica with small, hyaline proximal area, cell M with hyaline area distally.................................................................. S. ortegae García Aldrete
14. Cell M3 pigmented throughout, only with small hyaline lacunae; median process of subgenital plate long, slender....................................................................................... S. tambopata García Aldrete
-. Cell M3 with large hyaline area, only with small brown spots; median process of subgenital plate short, stout (Figs. 61−64)..................................................................................... S. plenitudensis n. sp.
15. Fore wing with L/W: 3.42, extensively pigmented, with medium sized spots and many small, round, brown spots, a pigmented oblique band from anterior end of pterostigma to Cu2, subgenital plate with median process elongate, more than twice as long as wide (Figs. 39−43)................................................................ S. manizalensis n. sp.
-. Fore wing with L/W less than 3.0, with brown spots not as above; with or without an oblique pigmented band on proximal half of wing; subgenital plate with median process short or long, if short, less than twice as long as wide................... 16
16. Subgenital plate with median process elongate, more than twice as long as wide; fore wing with a well defined pigmented band from anterior end of pterostigma to A, and an irregular pigmented band distally, ninth sternum wide, approximately rectangular............................................................................. S. buitrerensis González et al.
-. Subgenital plate with median process less than twice as long as wide........................................... 17
17. Fore wing distally hyaline, brown spots on proximal half, on cells R, M, and Cu1 y nodulus), not forming a transverse band...................................................................................... S. purus Mockford
-. Fore wing with variable brown spots throughout the wing, with or without a transverse, anterior, pigmented band........ 18
18. Fore wing with radial spots on cells R1 to M2 weakly pigmented, and brown spots proximally on cells R, Cu1 and Cu2................................................................................... S. monticola García Aldrete
-. Fore wing with well defined pigmented spots throughout the wing............................................. 19
19. Fore wing with clearly marked pigmented band from anterior end of pterostigma to vein A.......................... 20
-. Fore wing without a defined pigmented band proximally..................................................... 23
20. Head not pedunculate, C less than 100 microns; V2 long, stout, with very long, slender distal process; V3 triangular (Figs. 71−75)................................................................................ S. thorntoni n. sp.
-. Head pedunculate, C>100 microns; V2 not as pointed as above, V3 oval or triangular............................. 21
21. V3 triangular; V2 distally rounded, with small distal process; fore wing with median transverse band from posterior end of pterostigma to upper part of areola postica; spermapore sclerite irregular, elongate (Figs. 66−70).... S. rioblancoensis n. sp.
-. V3 oval, V2 variable; fore wing pattern variable............................................................ 22
22. Fore wing with median pigmented band from distal end of pterostigma to areola postica, continuing to cell M3; pigmented area of subgenital plate clearly divided in two; V2 distally only slightly projected...... S. conipata García Aldrete & Menchaca
-. Fore wing with median pigmented band not as above; pigmented area of subgenital plate not divided; V2 decidedly projected........................................................................................ S. pulcher New
23. V3 oval, V2 with long distal process, subgenital plate with long median process, mesally with a well defined triangular area, with a row of long setae on posterior border; fore wing with distal brown spots from cell R1 to areola postica (Figs. 8−11)..................................................................................... S. cashiriarensis n. sp.
-. V3 with posterior triangular process, V2 variable, fore wing variable, subgenital plate not as above................... 24
24. Head not pedunculate; V2 with long, slender distal process (Figs. 12−16)........................ S. chamelaensis n. sp.
-. Head pedunculate; V2 with distal process at most of medium length, decidedly shorter than above................... 25
25. Subgenital plate pigmented throughout; areola postica with a brown spot on apex.................................. 26
-. Subgenital plate with a longitudinal hyaline middle band, dividing the pigmented area; areola postica more fully pigmented than above........................................................................................ 27
26. R1 forming an angle with wing margin of more than 90°; areola postica low, slanted posteriorly; V2 with short distal projection; head little pedunculate (Figs. 17−21).................................................. S. cuzcoensis n. sp.
-. R1 forming an angle with margin of about 90°; areola postica tall, not slanted posteriorly; V2 not projected distally; head more pedunculate than above (Figs. 28−32)............................................... S. machupicchuensis n. sp.
27. Cell M almost hyaline, areola postica with transverse, long brown spot distally; subgenital plate with pigmented area deeply cleft anteriorly; V2 with distal process of medium length; fore wing veins with a brown spot at wing margin............................................................................................. S. punctipennis Enderlein
-. Cell M with brown spots distally, areola postica almost pigmented throughout; subgenital plate with pigmented area deeply cleft posteriorly; V2 with short distal process; fore wing veins without brown spots at wing margin....... S. maculatus New
description: Published as part of Obando, Ranulfo González, García, Alfonso N. & Carrejo, Nancy Soraya, 2011, New species of Steleops (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae) from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, pp. 28-54 in Zootaxa 3139 on pages 30-32, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207655