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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-08-18
Page range: 497–500
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New species and first records of Macunahyphes Dias, Salles & Molineri, 2005 (Ephemeroptera: Leptohyphidae) from Bahia state, Brazil

Programa de Pós—Graduação em Zoologia, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Ilhéus—Itabuna, km 16, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil. E-mail: e.verliins@gmail.com
Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, UESC—Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Ilhéus—Itabuna, km 16, Ilhéus, BA, Brazil.
Ephemeroptera Aquatic insect Mayfly taxonomy Neotropics

Abstract

A new species of Macunahyphes Dias, Salles & Molineri (Leptohyphidae) is described based on male imagos collected in the Michelin Ecological Reserve, Igrapiúna, Bahia state, Brazil, located in a preserved area of Atlantic Forest. The male of the new species can be distinguished from all congeners by the shape of the penes, which have a pair of unusual spines, and are elongated with lateral hook-shaped projections distributed from the base to the middle region. This new species represents the first record for the genus from Bahia State.