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Issue: Vol. 4861 No. 3: 19 Oct. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-10-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4861.3.7
Page range: 411–422
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New species and stages description of Traverella Edmunds, 1948 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Northeast 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 de Santa Cruz, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Laboratório de Organismos Aquáticos, Km 16, Rodovia Ilhéus-Itabuna, Cep 45650-000, Ilhéus, BA, 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 Atalophlebiinae Identification Key Neotropical South America Taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Traverella Edmunds, 1948 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) has 15 described species, three of them recorded from Brazil: Traverella bradleyi (Needham & Murphy, 1924), T. insolita Nascimento & Salles, 2013 and T. maranhensis Nascimento, Lima & Azevedo, 2019. In the present work, we provide the description of a new species to the genus based on nymphs and male imagos and provide description of the nymphal stage of T. maranhensis, based on collections from Maranhão State. Additionally, an updated key of male imagos is provided.

 

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