Description

Description. Male. Color (44 – 49 years in 80 % ethanol). Body reddish brown. Compound eyes black, ocelli hyaline, without pigmented centripetal crescents. Maxillary palps dark brown, antennae and legs pale brown. Wings hyaline, veins brown, R 1 and stigmasaum ochre. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax slightly more pigmented than surroundings. Abdomen whitish, with brown subcuticular rings, faded ventrally. Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Compound eyes slightly below the level of the vertex. Forewing pterostigma wider distally. Rs-M fused for a short distance, areola postica wide, apically rounded (Fig. 51). Hypandrium (Fig. 54), with a setal field on each side, other setae as illustrated, a sclerotized band along posterior border, between the posterior processes. Phallosome (Fig. 54). Paraprocts (Fig. 52) broad, sensory fields with 10 trichobothria, prong almost straight, distally truncate. Epiproct (Fig. 52) slightly concave anteriorly, bilobed posteriorly, strongly sclerotized along sides and posterior border of each lobe, setae as illustrated. Measurements. FW: 2188, HW: 1598, F: 420, T: 838, t 1: 238, t 2: 92, ctt 1: 12, Mx 4: 104, f 1: 236, f 2: 198, f 3: 166, f 4: 129, f 5: 83, IO: 325, D: 191, d: 110, IO / d: 2.95, PO: 0.57. Female. Color (44 – 49 years in 80 % ethanol). Same as in the male. Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Subgenital plate (Fig. 55), gonapophyses and ninth sternum (Fig. 53). Paraprocts (Fig. 56), elliptic, setae as illustrated, sensory fields with 10 trichobothria. Epiproct (Fig. 56), broadly trapeziform, setae as illustrated. Measurements. FW: 1606, HW: 1356, F: 380, T: 749, t 1: 232, t 2: 92, ctt 1: 12, Mx 4: 92, f 1: 218, f 2: 181, f 3: 137, f 4: 112, f 5: 77, f 6: 64, IO: 307, D: 142, d: 84, IO / d: 3.65, PO: 0.59. Specimens studied. Holotype male. GUATEMALA. 41.6 km N El Rancho, rd. To Cobán. 29. viii. 1968. Beating Pinus branches and foliage. E. L. Mockford & A. N. García Aldrete. 1 paratype female. Same data as the holotype (ISU).

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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Psocodea

Family: Lachesillidae

Genus: Lachesilla

Species: Lachesilla sharpi García-Aldrete, 2017