Steleops bolivianus, González-Obando & Calderón-Martínez & Carrejo-Gironza & Manchola, 2025

Steleops bolivianus sp. nov.

( Figs 193–199 View FIGURES 193–199 )

Diagnosis. Unlike S. lichenatus , it presents phallosome with markedly asymmetric parameres ( Fig. 199 View FIGURES 193–199 ), the left one more sclerotized and with spicules. It differs from L. ortegae by presenting spurious colorless spots, from S. plenitudensis for presenting the process as a right paramere with spicules and from S. cumbrensis sp. nov., because the hypandrium lacks tubercles covered with denticles in the anterior region and denticles in the medial structure ( Fig. 198 View FIGURES 193–199 ).

Color (On plate and 80% ethanol). Head ( Fig. 195 View FIGURES 193–199 ) brown, with some darker spots. Black compound eyes. Forewings ( Fig. 193 View FIGURES 193–199 ) proximally almost completely brown, excepting transverse hyaline areas and stripes; distal half brown with large hyaline areas reaching to apical margin of radial, medial and cubital cells; middle area between the proximal and distal part with a large hyaline cross-sectional area from the vicinity of the pterostigma to the postica areola. Pterostigma dark brown with small hyaline areas. Veins brown with small unpigmented droplet-like areas coming out of the veins, like spurious veins. Hindwings ( Fig. 194 View FIGURES 193–199 ) almost hyalines, with light brown costal area and brown veins. Epiproct ( Fig. 196 View FIGURES 193–199 ), paraprocts ( Fig. 197 View FIGURES 193–199 ) and phallosome brown ( Fig. 199 View FIGURES 193–199 ). Legs light cream, coxae brown, femora basally brown, medially with small brown spots, tibiae with two small brown spots in the distal area.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 195 View FIGURES 193–199 ): H/MxW: 1.18; compound eyes large, H/D: 2.83, not pedunculated, upper margin of the eyes does not exceed the vertex; IO/MxW: 0.93. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes, gently emarginate medially, laterally slightly convex. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with two o no defined denticle; Mx4/Mx2: 1.75. Forewings ( Fig. 193 View FIGURES 193–199 ): L/W: 2.19. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 1.93, apically wider, with almost straight distal curvature; vein 1A with pocket-like protuberance; areola postica: al/ah: 1.58. Hindwings ( Fig. 194 View FIGURES 193–199 ): l/w: 2.46. Hypandrium ( Fig. 198 View FIGURES 193–199 ) subtriangular, with very narrow strap-like medial band. Phallosome ( Fig. 199 View FIGURES 193–199 ) rhomboid, aedeagus flattened and widened, apical margin with pronounced concavity, right paramere poorly developed in the form of a very small lobe, left paramere highly sclerotized, apically rounded, distal-apical margins with elongated spines. Epiproct ( Fig. 196 View FIGURES 193–199 ) projected on the clunium, with a broadly rounded anterior projection and a hyaline mesal bulge, with a clearly demarcated hyaline posterior area and with setae. Paraprocts ( Fig. 197 View FIGURES 193–199 ) oval, with thick hook-shaped lateroapical process, strongly curved, sensory fields with 23 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (microns). FW: 3125, HW: 2150, F: 550, T: 1150, t1: 375, t2: 150, ctt1: 35, f1: 270, f2: 250, f3: 230, f4: 180, f5: 170, f6: 150, f7: 150, f8: 120, f9: 120, f10: 120, f11: 70, Mx4: 120, IO: 510, d: 200, D: 230, IO/d: 2.55, PO: 0.87

Material studied. Holotype Male. BOLIVIA. La Paz, 6 km south of Coripata. 16°20.607'S, 67°37.420'W. 1320 m. 05.iv.2004. A. N. García Aldrete. On rock. Musenuv slide code: 32188. GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to Bolivia, the country where the studied specimen was collected.