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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 3: 9 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.3.1
Page range: 251–283
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

Twelve new species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea: 'Psocoptera': Ptiloneuridae), from South America

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, CPEN - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Campus II, Caixa postal 478, CEP 69011-97, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70-153, 04510 México, D. F., MÉXICO.
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA, CPEN - Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Campus II, Caixa postal 478, CEP 69011-97, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Psocoptera Epipsocetae taxonomy neotropics

Abstract

Twelve species of Triplocania, seven based on male and female specimens and five based on male specimens, are here described and illustrated; nine species are Brazilian, three are Ecuadorian, and one of the latter is shared with Peru. Comments on sexes known and distribution of the species are included.

References

  1. Roesler, R. (1940) Neue und wenig bekannte Copeognathengattungen. I. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 129 (9/10), 225–243.

    Silva-Neto, A.M., Rafael J.A. & García Aldrete, A.N. (2015) New species of Triplocania Roesler (Psocodea, ’Psocoptera’, Ptiloneuridae), from Brazil and Ecuador. Zookeys, 505, 103–116.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.505.9870