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Issue: Vol. 2750 No. 1: 27 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2750.1.3
Page range: 33–38
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Asthenopus (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae: Asthenopodinae) from Brazil and Colombia

CONICET, Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, M. Lillo 205, San Miguel de Tucumán, 4000, Tucumán, Argentina, UNASUR
Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM , Av. General Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000, Campus Universitário, Coroado I, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil. Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), CEP 69060-001, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, PEDECIBA, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Ephemeroptera burrowing mayfly Ephemeroidea Asthenopus picteti taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Asthenopus, A. crenulatus sp. nov. is described from adults of both sexes from Brazil and Colombia. The new species is diagnosed by: male foreleg length 0.7–0.9 times the length of fore wing, marginal intercalary veins on the entire margin of fore and hind wings generally shorter than distance between longitudinal veins, forceps and penes long and slender, penes with many subapical spines. This new species is closely related with A. picteti (Hubbard). A key to the male adults of Asthenopus is included.

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