Panabachia caranqui, Muñoz-Tobar & Caterino, 2025

Panabachia caranqui sp. nov.

Figs 5 N, O View Figure 5 , 8 E View Figure 8

Type material.

Holotype • ♂ ( QCAZ-I -280221 ): “ ECUADOR: Imbabura, 0.14517, -78.27922, Mojanda , 3715 m, 12 JUL 2016, S. Muñoz, A. Romero, Ex. Berlese, leaf litter and moss ” / “ Muñoz DNA voucher, SIMT 300 , Morphosp. Mojanda 6 ”; deposited in QCAZI GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Head broad, with lateral vertexal foveae deep, non-setose; median fovea absent; eyes protuberant, small, diameter ~ 1 / 3 of the postocular genal length; antennae short, antennomere III small, 1 / 2 the size of antennomeres I and II, slightly longer than wide, antennomeres IV – VI beadlike, rounded, VII – IX increasingly transverse, shorter, antennomere X short, rounded, transverse, XI ~ 2 × as long as X; male pronotum simple, without secondary sexual modifications, slightly wider than long, widest toward front; two anteroprosternal foveae present, non-setose; each elytron with four basal foveae, inner three foveae evenly spaced, humeral-most disjunct; wings present, 4 × length of elytra; male last sternite (Fig. 5 O View Figure 5 ) transverse, convex, sparsely setose, with dense row of six flattened setae at middle of apical margin; male apical tergite (Fig. 5 N View Figure 5 ) transverse, slightly depressed in the middle; legs simple. Aedeagus (Fig. 8 E View Figure 8 ) with elongate median lobe and separate accessory sclerites; parameres fused to basal apodeme, narrowing apically but apparently ending free just beyond midpoint of tegmen; median lobe narrow, with very elongate ovoid basal foramen; tegmen narrowed beyond and curved laterad to rounded apex; accessory sclerites slightly asymmetrical, each with long curved inner arch, that of left side thinner and more elongate than that of right; this arch arising from perpendicular complex of hooks, that of right side more robust and with broader base. TL 1.63 mm, EW 0.39 mm.

Distribution.

This species is only known from shrub páramo on the slopes of Mt. Mojanda, province of Imbabura, Ecuador.

Etymology.

The name of this species acknowledges the Caranqui people, indigenous to Pichincha and Imbabura provinces.