Euplocania Enderlein 1910
Creators: name: Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe
name: González-Obando, Ranulfo
name: García-Aldrete, Alfonso N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Ptiloneuridae
Euplocania

description: Key to Euplocania males in the Amabilis species group
1. Central sclerite of hypandrium with postero-lateral processes longer than wide, distally curved inward or not (Figs 24, 60)...................................................................................................... 2
- Central sclerite of hypandrium with postero-lateral processes almost as wide as long, if longer then distally dilated (Figs 6, 12, 36, 48, 54)........................................................................................... 5
2. Central sclerite of hypandrium elongate, postero-lateral processes, straight, stout; mesal endophallic sclerite as in Fig. 59 ................................................................................... Euplocania tocantina n. sp.
- Central sclerite of hypandrium with postero-lateral processes curved inward....................................... 3
3. Mesal endophallic sclerite with posterior border denticulate (Fig. 29).......................... Euplocania katios n. sp.
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with posterior border not denticulate (Fig. 23)......................................... 4
4. Mesal endophallic sclerite with two pairs of postero-lateral processes and one pair of anterior processes (Fig. 23)......................................................................................... Euplocania equorum n. sp.
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with one pair of postero-lateral processes, not bearing a median, posterior process (see Fig. 24 in New & Thornton 1988).................................................. Euplocania badonneli New & Thornton
5. Postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium broad, almost square, with longitudinal lines, each with a short, acuminate process basally, on the inner side (Fig. 6). Mesal endophallic sclerite without median posterior projection (Fig. 5).................................................................................. Euplocania ariasi n. sp.
- Postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium with or without acuminate processes basally on the inner side, if present, not shorter than the outer process (Figs 30, 42). Mesal endophallic sclerite with median posterior processes (Figs 11, 29, 41, 65)........................................................................................... 6
6. Postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium with inner acuminate process longer (Fig. 48) or equal (Fig. 42) to the external area.................................................................................... 7
- Postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium without acuminate inner process (Fig. 36), or if present, shorter than the external area (Figs 54, 66)........................................................................ 8
7. Mesal endophallic sclerite with median posterior projection short (Fig. 47); central sclerite of hypandrium as in Fig. 48 ..................................................................................... Euplocania metensis n. sp.
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with median posterior projection long (Fig. 41); central sclerite of hypandrium as in Fig. 42 .................................................................................. Euplocania manausensis n. sp.
8. Mesal endophallic sclerite M-shaped, with postero median projection longer than the lateral processes (Fig. 35); central sclerite of hypandrium as in Fig. 36 ..................................................... Euplocania lasdelicias n. sp.
- Mesal endophallic sclerite not as above (Figs 11, 53, 65), if M-shaped, the postero median projection shorter than the side processes (Fig. 17), central sclerite of hypandrium variable (Figs 12, 54)............................................ 9
9. Mesal endophallic sclerite with postero-lateral projections long, well developed................................... 10
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with postero-lateral projections absent or very short.................................... 12
10. Mesal endophallic sclerite with postero-lateral projections longer than the median process; central sclerite of hypandrium with bifurcate lobes flanking a short median arc, ridged longitudinally each side of midline (Fig. 16 in New (1980)) ............................................................................................... Euplocania picta New
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with median posterior projection not as long as the lateral projections (Fig. 23).............. 11
11. Mesal endophallic sclerite with postero-lateral projections bifurcated; central sclerite of hypandrium with posterior processes bearing a field of spines, and with acuminate projection directed inward............. Euplocania pictaoides García Aldrete
- Mesal endophallic sclerite with postero-lateral projections not bifurcated; central sclerite of hypandrium with postero-lateral processes (Fig. 18)............................................................. Euplocania ecuatoriana n. sp.
12. Outer border of postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium rounded, spinose as in E. pictaoides (Fig. 54); anterior margin of mesal endophallic sclerite almost straight, with postero-median projection twice as long as the width of the sclerite (Fig. 53).................................................................. Euplocania rafaeli n. sp.
- Outer border of postero-lateral processes of the central sclerite of hypandrium not as above; anterior border of the mesal endophallic sclerite strongly emarginated, V-shaped or with antero-lateral projections, postero-median projections not as above................................................................................................... 13
13. Anterior border of mesal endophallic sclerite strongly concave, lateral arms directed forward, V-shaped (Fig. 65); anterior endophallic sclerite strongly emarginated anteriorly................................... Euplocania vaupesiana n. sp.
- Anterior border of mesal endophallic sclerite straight, lateral projections separated (Fig. 11); anterior endophallic sclerite not as above......................................................................... Euplocania caldasi n. sp.
description: Published as part of Vinasco-Mondragón, Andrés Felipe, González-Obando, Ranulfo & García-Aldrete, Alfonso N., 2018, The species group Amabilis of the genus Euplocania Enderlein (Psocodea: Psocomorpha: Ptiloneuridae), pp. 43-65 in Zootaxa 4444 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/1309443