Gibocercus podamita Pereyra 2017, n. sp.
Creators: name: Pereyra, Veronica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Embioptera
Scelembiidae
Gibocercus
Gibocercus podamita

description: Gibocercus podamita n. sp.
(FigureS 9–14)
Type material. Male holotype, Brazil: AmazonaS, Fonte Boa, EStr. Manopina, 02° 32’ 27’’ S 66° 04’ 08’’ W, 23- 28-IX-2005, at light, J.A. Rafael & F.F. XaVier. DepoSited in INPA.
Etymology. ThiS SpecieS iS dedicated to Lucia (Claudia’S daughter) and her childhood; podamita meanS pomadita (ointment in diminutiVe).
Diagnosis. Gibocercus podamita can be diStinguiShed from the other SpecieS of the genuS by haVing 10Lp1 oblique with reSpect to 10L, and Strongly Sclerotized; 10Lp1 outer tip globoSe and LC1dp with a well defined notch at the apex. Additionally, G. podamita differS from the Similar SpecieS G. nanai by haVing the apex of the antenna pigmented (not pigmented in G. nanai); Sm with broad baSe (narrow in G. nanai); 2 retrolateral rowS of Setae on the hind baSitarSuS (1 retrolateral row in G. nanai); 10Rp2 not diScoidal (diScoidal in G. nanai); LC1dp conical, not extremely prolonged and tubular aS in G. nanai.
Male (holotype). Head, antennae and terminalia light brown; prothorax, legS and pleuriteS not pigmented; the reSt of the body browniSh white. Head with a diffuSe unpigmented area between the eyeS on dorSal View.
Total length 10.51 mm. Head (Fig. 9) width/length = 0.93; OR = 0.52; Md with 3–2 inciSor teeth and 1–1 molar tooth; Mm clearly defined, Sm quadrangular with anterior margin membranouS (Fig. 10). Forewing length 6.8 mm, hindwing length: 6.33 mm. Wing Venation: Sc, R1, RS, Ma, Ma1 and A conSpicuouS; Ma2 and Mp clearly not reaching wing edge; Cua diffuSe. CroSS-VeinS in forewing: R1-RS: 4; RS-Ma1: 1; Ma-Mp: 1; Mp-Cua: 0–1. BaSitarSuS of hind leg narrow (Fig. 11): length 0.32 mm, width/length = 0.38. medial bladder diameter/ baSitarSuS width = 0.68; medial bladder well deVeloped; 2 rowS of Setae on retrolateral face, 3 rowS on anterolateral face, 4 rowS on VentrobaSal face, 6–8 Setae between bladderS on retrolateral face (Fig. 11).
Terminalia (FigS. 12–14) with 10Lp oblique in reference to 10L (Fig. 12), in outer lateral View inner tip Strongly deVeloped and Sclerotized with longitudinal keelS (Fig. 13), outer tip Small and membranouS. 10R with a Small membranouS area, 10Rp2 broad and rounded with SeVeral longitudinal keelS, 10Rp1 with dorSal tip with a clear longitudinal keel. Hp unpigmented caudally with tranSVerSal keelS. Inner node of Lpp Small but Strongly Sclerotized, keelS on Lpp preSent (Fig. 14). LC1 with apical proceSS, baSal proceSS abSent, longitudinal ratio of LC1/LC2 = 0.85, LC1dp conical and long, dorSal giba preSent; LC1dp/LC1width = 2.93, LC1dp almoSt three timeS longer than the width of LC1.
Female. Unknown.
Additional records. Brazil: Same data aS holotype, 3 male paratypeS, INPA; 1 male paratype, Japurá, ESt. Ecol. Juami-Japurá, 01° 45’ 14’’ S 62° 06’ 58’’ W, 23-29-IX-2004, F.F. XaVier, INPA.
description: Published as part of Pereyra, Veronica, 2017, Gibocercus Szumik and Biguembia Szumik (Embioptera, Archembiidae): new species and the potentiality of female traits, pp. 338-354 in Zootaxa 4317 (2) on pages 346-348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/884383