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

Steleops tenerife sp. nov.

( Figs 166–172 View FIGURES 166–172 )

Diagnosis. Belonging to group buitrerensis . Due to the characteristics of the hypandrium, it is closer to S. enderleini , but it differs from it because the head has a dark brown vertex, the compound eyes ( Fig. 168 View FIGURES 166–172 ) are longer than wide (rate 1.32) and the right paramere is not as pigmented as in S. enderleini ( Fig. 172 View FIGURES 166–172 ).

Male. Color (in plate and 80% ethanol). Head ( Fig. 168 View FIGURES 166–172 ) with vertex, frons, clypeus and labrum dark brown, genae and post genae cream. Ochre to black compound eyes. Forewing ( Fig. 166 View FIGURES 166–172 ) hyalines, veins brown, anal cell basally and pterostigma brown. Hindwing ( Fig. 167 View FIGURES 166–172 ) hyalines, veins brown. Epiproct, paraprocts and phallosome pale brown. Hypandrium brown. Legs pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head ( Fig. 168 View FIGURES 166–172 ): H/MxW: 1.26; compound eyes large, pedunculated, H/D: 2.51; IO/MxW: 0.88. Vertex V–shaped wide, below upper level of compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips with five denticles; Mx4/Mx2: 1.61. Forewings ( Fig. 166 View FIGURES 166–172 ): L/W: 2.63. Pterostigma: lp/wp: 3.86, areola postica: al/ah: 1.32. Hindwings ( Fig. 167 View FIGURES 166–172 ): l/w: 2.86. Hypandrium ( Fig. 171 View FIGURES 166–172 ) asymmetrical, with medial band of numerous setae on tubercles arranged longitudinally; with approximately 14 teeth of uniform size on the left margin of the medial band, right margin with small and abundant striae. Phallosome ( Fig. 172 View FIGURES 166–172 ) rhomboid, asymmetric, with right lobular paramere short, aedeagus acuminate apically and curved to the right, widely articulated to the right paramere. Epiproct pyriform, with setae and some spicules as illustrated ( Fig. 169 View FIGURES 166–172 ). Paraprocts ( Fig. 170 View FIGURES 166–172 ) oval with setae as illustrated, straight apical process, shorter than the rest of the paraproct, ending in a small, curved hook, sensory fields with 40 trichobothria on basal rosettes.

Measurements (microns). FW: 5350, HW: 3737.5, F: 1125, T: 2512.5, t1: 1025, t2: 200, ctt1: 41, f1: 1425, f2: 1350, f3: 1112.5, f4: 840, f5: 457.5, f6: 412.5, f7: 275, f8: 237.5, f9: 225, f10: 200, f11: 212.5, Mx4: 290, IO: 650, d: 280, D: 370, IO/d: 2.32, PO: 0.76.

Material studied. Holotype Male. COLOMBIA. Valle del Cauca. El Cerrito, Tenerife, Natural Reserve El Pailón, 03°42’16.7”N: 76°03’54.3”W, 2235 m. 5.vii.2019. R. Gonzalez. Shannon light trap. Musenuv slide code: 32205. GoogleMaps

Etymology. The specific epithet is a noun in apposition; this is dedicated to the population of Tenerife (Valle del Cauca), where the holotype was found.