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Issue: Vol. 4619 No. 1: 18 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.12
Page range: 195–199
Abstract views: 58
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Traverella Edmunds, 1948 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil

Universidade Estadual do Maranhão (UEMA), Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias (CESC), Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Cep 65604-380, Caxias, Maranhão State, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Piauí (UESPI), Campus Heróis do Jenipapo, Laboratório de Biodiversidade, Cep 64280-000, Campo Maior, Piauí State, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Maranhão (UEMA), Centro de Estudos Superiores de Caxias (CESC), Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Cep 65604-380, Caxias, Maranhão State, Brazil.
Ephemeroptera mayflies Atalophlebiinae taxonomy Brazil Neotropics

Abstract

A new species of Traverella Edmunds (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) is described based on male imagoes from the state of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil. The main characteristics that distinguish the new species from the other species are: 1) subgenital plate forming two lateral, broad projections with two fine, long spines dorsally recurved; 2) penis lobe triangular and apically rounded, with a small ventral projection at apex and a ventral longspine slightly curved and directed to midline.

 

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