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Issue: Vol. 4066 No. 4: 18 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.4.9
Page range: 485–492
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 2

Hydrolutos piaroa sp.n. (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae), a new semiaquatic Lutosini species from south-western Venezuelan lowland streams

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina, SK-84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
Department of Biology and General Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences,Technical University in Zvolen, T.G. Masaryka 24, SK-960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Centre of Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Seestrasse 79, CH-6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
Department of Environmental Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, Mlynská dolina, SK-84215 Bratislava, Slovakia
Orthoptera Anostostomatidae Hydrolutos semiaquatic Venezuela

Abstract

Hydrolutos piaroa, a new species of Lutosini (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from Tobogán de la Selva (Puerto Ayacucho region, SW Venezuela) is described and figured. Inhabiting aquatic environment it represents an unusual orthopteran with sternal and pleural area covered by fine microtrichia, forming a plastron. This is the first known Hydrolutos species sampled in lowland streams of Venezuelan Guayana.

 

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