Panabachia ananay, Muñoz-Tobar & Caterino, 2025

Panabachia ananay sp. nov.

Figs 5 M View Figure 5 , 7 B View Figure 7 , 8 B View Figure 8

Type material.

Holotype • ♂ ( QCAZ-I -278830 ): “ ECUADOR: Pichincha, -0.18765, -78.54053, Ruco Pichincha , 3897 m, 22 JUN 2016, S. Muñoz, A. Romero & S. Myers, Ex. Berlese, páramo ” / “ Muñoz DNA Voucher, Ex. SIMT 296 , Morphosp. Pich / Virgen 2 ”; deposited in QCAZI GoogleMaps . Paratypes • 2 ♀ same data as holotype ( SIMT 250 , SIMT 266 ) ( QCAZ-I -278831 to 278832) GoogleMaps .

Other material.

4 ♀: “ ECUADOR: Pichincha, -0.30795, -78.23255, La Virgen , 3694 m, 28 JUN 2016, S. Muñoz, & R. Tobar, Ex. Berlese, Bosque Polylepis y pajonal ” ( SIMT 274 , SIMT 276 , SIMT 277 , SIMT 247 ) GoogleMaps • 1 ♀: “ ECUADOR: Chimborazo, -1.6400, -78.5071, Releche , 3124 m, 08 JUL 2016, S. Muñoz & A. Romero, Ex. Berlese ( SIMT 284 ) GoogleMaps • 1 ♂: “ ECUADOR: Carchi, 0.70587, -77.96642, El Angel, Saladero , 3301 m, 26 JUL 2016, S. Muñoz & R. Tobar, Ex. Berlese, Páramo de frailejones ” ( SIMT 248 ) ( QCAZ-I -278833 to 278834, 280203 to 280206) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Head broad, with lateral vertexal foveae deep, non-setose, closer to eyes on each side than to each other; median fovea absent; eyes protuberant but not large, diameter ~ 2 / 3 postocular genal width; posteroventral margin of gena projecting, rounded (Fig. 5 M View Figure 5 ); two gular fovea present; antennae rather short, antennomere III slightly longer than wide, IV – VI beadlike, rounded, VII – IX increasingly transverse, shorter, X short, rounded, transverse, XI ~ 2 × as long as X, rounded, with setose depression on inner apex, no antennal segment differences between male and female; male pronotum (Fig. 7 B View Figure 7 ) slightly wider than long, widest just behind middle due to elevated, angulate processes, with a patch of setae on each posterior edge; posterior edge of disk depressed; median portion of disk with short, deep, transverse depression, lined by setae along lateral and anterior margins, with distinct median fovea within; anterior portion of disk less strongly but more broadly depressed, with setal patches at lateral corners and divergent tufts on either side of anterior edge; deep anterolateral pronotal depressions present at sides, two anteroprosternal foveae present; each elytron with four basal fovea, three fovea evenly spaced and one contiguous fovea, sutural stria complete, discal stria absent; wings present, 5 × the length of elytron; legs simple; male last sternite convex, sparsely setose, with a forked process in the apical margin, three thick basally arched setae at middle of apical margin, male apical tergite transverse, slightly depressed in the middle. Aedeagus (Fig. 8 B View Figure 8 ) with elongate median lobe and separate accessory sclerites; parameres apparently fused at base and middle of median lobe, briefly separate subbasally; median lobe narrow, with elongate oval basal foramen, narrowed beyond and curved laterad to rounded apex; accessory sclerites large and elaborate, with strongly sclerotized rim surrounding inner hooked disk. TL 1.48–1.51 mm, EW 0.36–0.40 mm.

Distribution.

This species is known from páramo habitats and Polylepis forest in the province of Pichincha, Carchi and Chimborazo, Ecuador.

Etymology.

This species’ name comes from a Kichwa term meaning pretty.

Remarks.

See preceding remarks to separate this species from the partly sympatric and similar P. papallacta .