A new Lachesilla species, in species group Texcocana, endemic to the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, México (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Psocomorpha: Lachesillidae)

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  • Alfonso Neri García Aldrete Instituto de Biología

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v23i2.5978

Keywords:

Taxonomy, neotropics, endemism.

Abstract

A species of Lachesilla in species group Texcocana, is here described and illustrated, it is endemic to the Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca. Although it is macropterous, it shows brachypterous characters in both sexes, such as wing length, missing or interrupted veins, and few trichobothria in the sensory fields of the paraprocts. The types are deposited in the National Insect Collection (CNIN), Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CdMx, México.

References

Arriaga, L., Espinoza, J. M., Aguilar, C., Martínez, E., Gómez, L. y Loa, E. (coordinadores). 2000. Regiones terrestres prioritarias de México. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, México.

García Aldrete, A. N. 1985. The species of Lachesilla in the group “Texcocana” (Psocoptera: Lachesillidae). Descriptions, records and relationships. Folia Entomológica Mexicana, (65): 37-62.

García Aldrete, A. N. & Casasola González, J. A. 2012. New species of Triplocania and Lachesilla from Sierra Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico (Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’: Ptiloneuridae, Lachesillidae). Dugesiana, 19(2): 135- 141.

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2016-12-16

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