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Type: Article
Published: 2014-04-16
Page range: 194–200
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A new species of Atanatolica Mosely 1936 (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Serra Bonita, Bahia, Brazil

Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Avenida dos Bandeirantes, 3900. CEP. 14040-901. Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo Brazil.
Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia Aquática, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, 147, Campus Ondina, Ondina. CEP. 40170-115. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
Atlantic Forest caddisflies Neotropics seasonal variation taxonomy

Abstract

The Neotropical genus Atanatolica includes 17 species distributed from Costa Rica to Brazil, but only two, A. brasiliana and A. flinti, have been recorded from Brazil, both occurring in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo States. A new species, Atanatolica bonita n. sp., is described and illustrated based on males and females from the Atlantic Forest in Bahia State in northeastern Brazil. The new species can be diagnosed by the following characters: Apicomesal and apicolateral processes of segment X of same length, long and digitate; and second article of each inferior appendage well developed, long, and thumb-shaped. Notes on demographic changes and correlations with seasonal variation and precipitation are also given.