Triplocania humboldtiana González-Obando & Carrejo-Gironza & García 2017, n. sp.

Triplocania humboldtiana n. sp. Male

(Figs 176–181)

Diagnosis. Belonging in the species assemblage that includes T. calima n. sp., T. felidiaensis n. sp., and T. mariacarmenae n. sp. Differing from them in the hypandrium (Fig. 180) and phallosome (Fig. 181). It has three pairs of endophallic sclerites, the posterior asymmetric, each arm anteriorly curved, right one distally curved, acuminate, left one also distally curved, but apically dilated, with a row of teeth on outer border; mesal pair Ushaped, with arms slender, and a stout median projection bearing distally a row of teeth (Fig. 181).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale cream, with pale brown and dark spots. Compound eyes brown; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head (Fig. 178): with narrow brown diagonal band from inner margin of each compound eye to near the epistomal sulcus. Vertex, front, clypeus and labrum dark cream; postclypeus and vertex with brown spots. Genae with narrow areas brown, from compound eyes to subgenal sulcus. Postgenae cream. Antennae pale brown. Tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown. Thoracic pleura cream, except the brown mesopleura. Legs: fore- and hind- pale cream; middle leg pale brown; coxae and tarsomeres 2–3 brown. Forewings with pale brown marginal band from pterostigma to 1A; setae on veins issuing from brown areolae (Fig. 176). Hindwing with cream marginal band, from R4+5 to near Cu1, and anteriorly, along wing margin, from 1A almost to Cu1 (Fig. 177). Abdomen pale cream, with small irregular brown spots. Cluniun brown; hypandrium and phallosome dark brown. Epiproct and paraprocts pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head (Fig. 178): H/MxW: 1.49; compound eyes: H/D: 2.32, IO/MxW: 0.75, MxW/IO: 2.27. Vertex almost straight, at the same level of the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tips broad, with seven denticles. Forewings (Fig. 176): pterostigma membrane with abundant setae; L/W: 2.46, pterostigma: lp/wp: 5.50; areola postica high, la/ha: 1.76. Hindwings (Fig. 177): l/w: 2.69. Hypandrium asymmetric (Fig. 180), side sclerites larger than the central one, this deeply convex anteriorly, posterior projection slender, distally acuminate, near the left postero-lateral corner. Phallosome V-shaped anteriorly (Fig. 181), side struts joined distally to the slender external parameres. Paraprocts (Fig. 179) broad, elongate, rounded posteriorly; sensory fields with 37 trichobothria on basal rosettes, setae as illustrated. Epiproct (Fig. 179) wide, semioval, straight anteriorly, rounded posteriorly, with setae as illustrated.

Measurements. FW: 7375, HW: 4975, F: 1725, T: 2925, t1: 1062, t2: 187, t3: 227, ctt1: 26, f1: 1375, IO: 670, D: 570, d: 410, IO/d: 1.63, PO: 0.72.

Material studied. Holotype male. COLOMBIA. Norte de Santander, National Natural Park Tamá, Toledo, La Candelaria (Pozo Negro), 7°21’N: 72°28’W, 2203 m., 21–29.XI.2003, C. Leal. Malaise trap (MAH).

Etymology. The specific epithet is an adjective; the species is dedicated to the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, Boyacá, Colombia.