Abstract
A new species of Euplocania belonging in the Marginata species group, collected in an area of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazilian states of Bahia is described and illustrated. It differs from all the other species in the Marginata species group in details of the hypandrium and phallosome. This is the first record of a species in the Marginata species group for the Atlantic Rainforest biome and the first record of a Euplocania species for Brazilian states of Bahia.
Highlights
Uplocania Enderlein, 1910 is one of 12 extant genera in the psocopteran family Ptiloneuridae (Silva-Neto et al 2019)
Close to E. uariniensis from which differs by having hypandrium with posterior corners almost square and side sclerites almost triangular; phallosome with side struts widening posteriorly and distally almost triangular, mesal sclerite almost U-shaped, anteriorly convex in the middle, with antero-lateral corners projected, these with irregularly shaped, distally triangular; posteriorly with a convex area in the middle, V- shaped, with two rectangular postero-lateral projections, and by having the antero-lateral pair of endophallic sclerite, elongated, curved inward, posteriorly wide, shoe shaped, and distally curved outward
Euplocania atlantica n. sp. here described increases to fortyeight the amount of species in the genus Euplocania and increases to three the number of species in the Marginata group
Summary
Uplocania Enderlein, 1910 is one of 12 extant genera in the psocopteran family Ptiloneuridae (Silva-Neto et al 2019). At present includes forty-seven described species, organized into fourteen species groups based on wing pigmentation, number of veins M in forewing, shape of pterostigma and hypandrium structure (García Aldrete et al 2013; Obando et al 2015; Obando et al 2017; Vinasco-Mondragón et al 2018; Obando et al 2018; Silva-Neto et al 2019). The Marginata species group, of García Aldrete et al (2013), is one of these fourteen Euplocania species groups, and is diagnosed by having forewing with pigmented marginal band from R4+5 to A1 and Cu2 cells, pterostigma rounded, not angulate nor extended towards Rs, hindwing with pigmented marginal band from R4+5 to A and Cu2 cells and hypandrium of three sclerites, central one large, with two medians, stout, acuminate posterior projections. Collected in an area of the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazilian states of Bahia, not assignable to any of the known species this group. The purpose of this paper is to describe and illustrate that specimen as the third species known of Marginata species group
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