Three new species of Goja Navás (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Epipsocidae) from Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico

José Arturo Casasola-González

doi:10.32870/dugesiana.v27i2.7121

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Three species of Goja Navás collected in the mountain communities of Santa Catarina Lachatao, Ixtlán de Juárez and Santiago Comaltepec, are here described and illustrated. All of them are endemic to Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca. This report increases the number of species described in the genus to 33 and the number of species recorded in Mexico to 25. G. garcialdretei is similar to G. martinezi Casasola-González & García Aldrete, another species that also occurs in the same region. G. cuspidata and G. bicuspidata are similar species on account of their phallosome, but are quite distinct on wing venation

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RESUMEN Tres especies de Goja Navás, colectadas en las comunidades serranas de Santa Catarina Lachatao, Ixtlán de Juárez y Santiago Comaltepec, son aquí descritas e ilustradas
Based on the descriptions presented in this paper, the males of the three new species exhibit all the diagnostic characters of the genus Goja Navás
They are similar because they have a crossvein Rs-M in the hindwing and endophallic sclerites in the phallosome, but they differ because the males of Goja have supernumerary venation in the foreand hind wings, while the males of Gojaoides have a caeciliusid venation (García Aldrete, 2012)

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RESUMEN Tres especies de Goja Navás, colectadas en las comunidades serranas de Santa Catarina Lachatao, Ixtlán de Juárez y Santiago Comaltepec, son aquí descritas e ilustradas. The genus was established considering a single diagnostic character, the supernumerary venation of the fore- and hind wings of the male (Navás, 1927). Casasola-González & García Aldrete (2002) diagnosed the genus based on a combination of morphological characters of the head, thorax and abdomen, of both sexes; they described 35 new species, 29 with supernumerary venation and six with caeciliusid venation; and they recognized it as a monophyletic group. In 2012, García Aldrete re-appraised the deinition of the genus and separated the recognized species into two well-deined groups: in Group I, he retained the genus Goja Navás and included the species that had the original diagnostic character, that is, the supernumerary venation of the fore- and hind wings of the male, while in Group II, he established the new genus Gojaoides, separating the species that had a caeciliusid venation. I present the description of three new species of Goja that are part of the mentioned above collection and are endemic to the region

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