Description

Description. Color (36 years in 80 % ethanol). Body reddish brown. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Antennae, maxillary palps and legs reddish brown. Wings hyaline, with an orange hue, veins reddish brown. Abdomen whitish, with ochre subcuticular rings, faded ventrally. Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Compound eyes below the level of the slightly emarginate vertex. Forewing pterostigma wider distally, Rs-M fused for a distance, areola postica tall, apically rounded (Fig. 31). Hypandrium and phallosome (Fig. 32), a sclerotized band along posterior border of the hypandrium, between the posterior processes. Paraprocts (Fig. 33) almost circular, setae as illustrated, a sclerotized band on inner borders, next sensory fields, these sensory fields with 11 trichobothria; mesal prongs slender, distally truncate. Epiproct (Fig. 33) slightly concave anteriorly, bilobed posteriorly, setae as illustrated. Measurements. FW: 2149, HW: 1625, F: 416, T: 782, t 1: 248, t 2: 91, ctt 1: 12, Mx 4: 100, f 1: 244, f 2: 205, f 3: 160, f 4: 139, f 5: 98, f 6: 83, f 7: 73, f 8: 64, IO: 369, D: 162, d: 104, IO / d: 3.54, PO: 0.64. Specimen studied. Holotype male. MEXICO. Oaxaca. 9 km NW Telixtlahuaca. 5. vii. 1981. Beating dead oak branches. A. N. García Aldrete (CNIN).

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Psocodea

Family: Lachesillidae

Genus: Lachesilla

Species: Lachesilla godmani García-Aldrete, 2017