Trichadenotecnum nicaraguense Yoshizawa & Aldrete & Mockford 2008, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Yoshizawa, Kazunori
name: Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García
name: Mockford, Edward L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Psocidae
Trichadenotecnum
Trichadenotecnum nicaraguense

description: TRICHADENOTECNUM NICARAGUENSE SP. NOV.   Material examined: Holotype. Male. Nicaragua: Granada, Volcán Mombacho, Santa Ana no. 2, 15.vii.1978, J. M. Maes (UNAM). Paratypes. Nicaragua: 1 male, Granada, Volcán Mombacho, 340 m, 15.xii.1997, J. M. Maes (UNAM); 1 male, Granada, Volcán Mombacho, San Joaquín #1, 16.iii.1998, J. M. Maes (UNAM).   
 Etymology: The specific epithet derives from Nicaragua, the country of origin of this species.   
 Description: Male. Head. White in ground colour; vertical and orbital markings blackish brown; coronal suture black; frontal suture bordered with blackish brown band dorsally; frons with pair of faint brown bands at middle and with pair of circular blackish brown spots laterally; gena white dorsally, blackish brown ventrally; eye black, IO/D = 0.6; ocelli white, ocellar field black; antennal socket bordered with dark brown band; postclypeus with c. eight rows of pale brown spots dorsally, fused with each other ventrally to form a large blackish brown marking, lateral margin of postclypeus brown, dorsal margin and ventro-lateral corner without marking; anteclypeus brown. Antenna brown. Mouth parts pale brown; 4th segment of maxillary palpus dark brown.   
 Thorax. Prothorax brown. Mesonotum white; anterior surface of scutum pale brown; anterior margin of lateral lobe of scutum black; posterior region of lateral lobe of scutum pale brown; scutellum dark brown medially, anterior margin blackish brown; postnotum white. Metanotum dark brown, with white markings on anterior and posterior regions of lateral lobe of scutum; anterior margin of scutellum darker. Mesopleuron white, except dorsal third and ventral margin dark brown. Metapleuron brown except membranous region white.   
 Legs. Dark brown; fore and middle femora with paler region medially; fore and middle tibiae pale brown with blackish brown part near distal end.   
 Forewing (Fig. 17L). Spots in cell a 1 apparent and narrowly separated from each other, distal spot large. Opposing spots in cell r distinct but posterior spot small. Proximal band narrow, broadly interrupted just beyond fork of M + Cu, with round lighter pigmented portion in cell CuA. Distal band narrow but distinct especially in cell r 5. Spot on roof of cell m 3 broad and distinct. Submarginal spots apparent; spots in cells r 5 and m 1 larger; spot in cell m 3 indistinct. Marginal clouds apparent, darker in cells r 5 and m 1. Hindwing. Hyaline, cell CuP with faint brown irregular marking and spots in distal half; veins brown.   
 Abdomen. White with irregular brown markings. Terminalia. Clunial arm (Fig. 35A) well sclerotized, long, forming free process apically, with wellsclerotized lobe covered with denticles. Eighth venter (Fig. 35C) with transverse rectangular sclerite, posteriorly fused with hypandrium at middle. Epiproct lobe (Fig. 35B) wider than long, broadened dorsally, dorsal margin deeply hollowed, medially with conical process directed posteriorly, posterior surface swollen. Paraproct (Fig. 35A): ventro-lateral band very short, tongue-shaped; distal process short. Hypandrium (Fig. 35C): left and right processes well developed, rising from postero-lateral corners, almost straight, apices directed posteriorly; median tongue constricted medially, posterior margin concave, dorsal keel rounded. Phallosome (Fig. 35D): aedeagus unsclerotized; pseudoparameres weakly sclerotized, broadly separated, rounded apically. Phallobase narrowing to pointed anterior end.   
 Length. B 1.8–2.2; FW 2.6–2.8; HW 2.0–2.2.   
 Female. Unknown.   
 Distribution: Nicaragua.
description: Published as part of Yoshizawa, Kazunori, Aldrete, Alfonso Neri García & Mockford, Edward L., 2008, Systematics and biogeography of the New World species of Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Insecta: Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Psocidae), pp. 651-723 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (4) on pages 697-699, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00398.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5446195