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Issue: Vol. 3619 No. 5: 4 Mar. 2013
Type: Articles
Published: 2013-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3619.5.4
Page range: 554–556
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 2

Kempnyia puri, a new species of Perlidae (Plecoptera) from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, CEP: 21941-971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Departamento de Entomologia, Núcleo de Morfologia e Ultraestrutura de Vetores, CEP: 21045-900, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, CEP: 21941-971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Animal. Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz), Departamento de Entomologia, Núcleo de Morfologia e Ultraestrutura de Vetores, CEP: 21045-900, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, CEP: 21941-971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Plecoptera Perlidae Kempnyia new species Brazil

Abstract

Kempnyia puri sp.nov. is described from male specimens from Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the male genitalia bearing moderately long and curved hooks with apex directed laterad and a large and rounded dorsal projection of the penial ring.

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