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Type: Article
Published: 2015-10-08
Page range: 296–300
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A new species of Parakari (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from Guiana Highlands

Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, SK–84215 Bratislava, Slovakia.
CONICET-Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Miguel Lillo 251. Tucumán, Argentina, UNASUR (4000).
Department of Biology and General Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences,Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 2117/24, SK–96053 Zvolen, Slovakia. Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Aquatic Ecology, Centre of Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry, Seestrasse 79, 6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
Ephemeroptera mayflies Pantepui tepui taxonomy Venezuela

Abstract

The genus Parakari was described from Guiana Highlands in southeastern Venezuela by Nieto & Derka in 2011 for two species inhabiting streams draining isolated, flat-topped table mountains called tepuis. A description of a third representative, Parakari roraimensis sp. n., is given here based on material collected from a coldwater stream at the foothills of Roraima-tepui (SE Venezuela). Detailed morphological descriptions of mature nymph and female adult are given. A differential diagnosis and a key to nymphs of the three Parakari species are provided.