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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 1: 11 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.1.1
Page range: 1–24
Abstract views: 49
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Revision of fossil Metretopodidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera) in Baltic amber—Part 3: Description of two new species of Siphloplecton Clemens, 1915, with notes on the re-discovered lectotype of Siphloplecton macrops (Pictet-Baraban & Hagen, 1856)

1Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Abteilung Entomologie, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany.
State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Teatralna 18, 79008 Lviv, Ukraine.
Ephemeroptera fossil insects mayflies Siphlonuroidea new species lectotype species group Eocene

Abstract

In this contribution, we provide a complementary description of the re-discovered lectotype of Siphloplecton macrops (Pictet-Baraban & Hagen, 1856). Additionally, complementary descriptions of S. barabani Staniczek & Godunko, 2012 and S. picteti Staniczek & Godunko, 2012 based on new material are given. Two new species, S. sartorii sp. nov. and S. gattolliati sp. nov., are described from male imagines and attributed to two newly defined species groups within Siphloplecton.

 

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