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Issue: Vol. 3795 No. 4: 14 May 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-05-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.4.4
Page range: 441–448
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Northeastern Brazil

Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Porifera, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, CEP 50670-420, Recife, Pernambuco.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil, CEP 29933-415, São Mateus, Espírito Santo.
Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Porifera, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil, CEP 50670-420, Recife, Pernambuco.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil, CEP 29933-415, São Mateus, Espírito Santo.
leptophlebiids Neotropical taxonomy mayflies

Abstract

Miroculis stenopterus, sp. nov., is described based on material from State of Pernambuco, Northeastern Brazil. The imago of the new species can be distinguished, among other characteristics, by an uncommon forewing shape, long and narrow, similar to species of genus Microphlebia. The tentatively associated nymph can be distinguished from other species of the genus mainly by the abdominal color pattern and the ratio of labial palp segment 2 to segment 1 (1.01–1.04 x).