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Issue: Vol. 1096 No. 1: 16 Dec. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1096.1.5
Page range: 61–67
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 4

A key to adult Amazonian stonefly genera with new geographical records of Enderleina Jewett for Brazil and first description of the E. froehlichi Ribeiro-Ferreira female (Insecta: Plecoptera)

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Curso de pós-graduação em Entomologia Caixa Postal 478, CEP 69011-970. Amazonas, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Curso de pós-graduação em Entomologia Caixa Postal 478, CEP 69011-970. Amazonas, Brasil National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development
Euarthropoda Amazon Basin Enderleina Plecoptera stoneflies taxonomy

Abstract

A key to the adults of the Brazilian Amazonian Plecoptera genera is presented. Enderleina froehlichi Ribeiro-Ferreira is redescribed from the holotype male, and the female is described for the first time. New Brazilian records are provided for E. yano Stark and E. flinti Stark.

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    Stark, B. P. (2001) A synopsis of Neotropical Perlidae (Plecoptera). In: Domínguez, E. (Ed), Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 405–422.