Panabachia romeroi, Muñoz-Tobar & Caterino, 2025

Panabachia romeroi sp. nov.

Figs 3 C View Figure 3 , 4 H View Figure 4 , 6 G View Figure 6

Type material.

Holotype • ♂ ( QCAZ-I -280223 ): “ ECUADOR: Carchi, 0.70587, -77.96642, El Angel, Saladero , 3301 m, 26 JUL 2016, S. Muñoz & R. Tobar, Ex. Berlese, Páramo de frailejones ” / “ Muñoz DNA Voucher, Ex. SIMT 289 , Morphosp. ElAngel 17 ”; deposited in QCAZI GoogleMaps . Paratypes ( 1 ♂, 1 ♀) • same data as holotype ( SIMT 289 : QCAZ-I -280224 to 280225) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Head (Fig. 3 C View Figure 3 ) broad, sparsely setose; posterior margin of the head elevated, rounded; two vertexal fovea deep, non-setose, closer to eyes on each side than to each other; eyes protuberant, moderately large, diameter equal to postocular genal length; antennal bases slightly elevated, set off by oblique stria; antennae short, antennomere II globose, III subconical, antennomeres IV – VI beadlike, rounded, VII – IX increasingly transverse, IX 2 × the size of antennomere VIII, transverse, XI ~ 2 × as long as X, rounded, densely setose, with small depression on inner apex; male pronotum (Fig. 4 H View Figure 4 ) slightly longer than wide, widest just behind middle, strongly narrowed to front, anterior portion of lateral margins slightly concave; disk convex in basal 1 / 2, with fine mediobasal fovea, mostly smooth, with sparse, fine, setose punctures, slightly denser anteriorly and laterally; anterior portion of disk with widely V-shaped depression, smooth within, the upper arms nearly reaching anterior margin, with long, anteriorly directed setae along posteromedial margin and a denser tuft at the inner base of the V; elytra sparsely setose, each elytron with four evenly spaced foveae, no discal stria, apical stria complete; male last abdominal ventrite entirely depressed, rough, apical margin outwardly subangulate, with recurved setose tooth at apex; opposing surface of male last tergite broadly emarginate, thickened, setose on lower edge; legs simple. Aedeagus (Fig. 6 G View Figure 6 ) broad at base, with wide flat basal rim, flattened, bent abruptly distad ~ 1 / 4 from base; parameres free at base, bent inward and fusing with median lobe just distad basal foramen, apices bent in parallel with median lobe, short, free, weakly setose; median lobe narrowing toward apex, with tip upturned, weakly curved, narrowly subacute; accessory sclerites present, free, very reduced, with short, thick basal part and thin, crescent-shaped apical part. TL 1.28–1.41 mm, EW 0.34–0.38 mm.

Distribution.

This species is only known from páramo habitats of central Carchi province, Ecuador.

Etymology.

We name this species to acknowledge the assistance in the field of Dr. Andrés Romero-Carvajal, who helped collect several specimens described in this manuscript.