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Issue: Vol. 3827 No. 3: 4 Jul. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.3.1
Page range: 301–317
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Ephemeroptera from the Venezuelan Guayanas´s Uplands: Families Leptophlebiidae, Euthyplociidae and Oligoneuriidae

Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Miguel Lillo 205. 4.000 Tucumán, Argentina.
Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, AP 47058, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela.
Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Miguel Lillo 205. 4.000 Tucumán, Argentina.
Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Miguel Lillo 205. 4.000 Tucumán, Argentina.
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola Francisco Fernández Yépez, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, AP 4579, Maracay, Venezuela.
Askola Hagenulopsis Paramaka Simothraulopsis Fittkauneuria

Abstract

As a continuation of a series of papers to improve the knowledge of the Ephemeroptera fauna of the Venezuelan Guayana´s Uplands, an update of the families Leptophlebiidae, Euthyplociidae and Oligoneuriidae in the region is presented. As a result, Paramaka incognita sp. nov. is described, the female of Askola emmerichi is described for the first time, and the genera Askola, Hydrosmilodon and Leentvaaria, the subgenus Miroculis (Atroari) and the species Miroculis (M.) marauiae are recorded for the first time for Venezuela.