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Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 3: 5 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.3.8
Page range: 573–583
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 1

Three new species of Miroculis from the Serra da Mocidade National Park, Roraima State, Brazil, with new records and checklist of the Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera)

Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Rodovia BR 101 Norte, Km. 60, Litorâneo, CEP 29932-540, São Mateus, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), CEP 69011-970, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), Campus Paricarana, Centro de Estudos da Biodiversidade (CBio), Laboratório de Entomologia, CEP 69310-000, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
Coordenação de Biodiversidade, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia—INPA/Manaus.
Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR), Campus Paricarana, Centro de Estudos da Biodiversidade (CBio), Laboratório de Entomologia, CEP 69310-000, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
Ephemeroptera mayfly neotropical region taxonomy Atalophlebiinae

Abstract

The Serra da Mocidade National Park is a conservation area located in one of the most inaccessible portions of Amazonia Biome in the Roraima State. The first survey of aquatic insects from that in this region was undertaken in January to February 2016 and we present a checklist of eight species of the Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) found in the Park and describe three new species of Miroculis based on male imagos.

 

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