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Issue: Vol. 1187 No. 1: 28 Apr. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-04-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1187.1.3
Page range: 47–59
Abstract views: 64
PDF downloaded: 2

Cabecar serratus, a new genus and species of leptohyphid mayfly from Central America, and description of the imaginal stages of Tricorythodes sordidus Allen (Ephemeroptera: Leptohyphidae)

Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2475
Instituto Nacional Biodiversidad, Apdo. 22-3100, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica, C.A.
Ephemeroptera Leptohyphidae Tricorythodes Cabecar new genus new species.

Abstract

Cabecar serratus, gen. n., sp. n., is described based upon larvae and reared adults from the costal regions of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panamá. The imago stage of Tricorythodes sordidus Allen is also described for the first time from reared larvae from Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

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