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Issue: Vol. 2866 No. 1: 4 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2866.1.3
Page range: 50–54
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

First record and new species of Tortopsis Molineri, 2010 (Ephemeroptera, Polymitarcyidae) from Brazil

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21941–971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Laboratório de Insetos Aquáticos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 22290–240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, 21941–971, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Ephemeroptera Atlantic Rainforest Campsurinae Mayfly new species Rio de Janeiro state

Abstract

A new species of the recently erected genus Tortopsis is described from males and females imagos collected in Macaé river, Rio de Janeiro State. Tortopsis canum sp. nov. can be recognized by the color pattern of the head and pronotum, strongly shaded with black in both sexes, male genitalia with parastyli long and straight and female parastyli receptor “C” shaped, with receptors large, occupying nearly all extension of sternum VIII. This new species represents the first record of the genus Tortopsis in Brazil.

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