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Issue: Vol. 4695 No. 3: 8 Nov. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-11-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.3.3
Page range: 283–294
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Description of two related new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil and Colombia

Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, CEP 29.933-415, São Mateus, ES, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil, CEP 29075-910
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, CEP 29.933-415, São Mateus, ES, Brazil Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil, CEP 29075-910
Museu de Entomologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 36570-900, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ephemeroptera diversity mayflies neotropical region taxonomy Atalophlebiinae

Abstract

Two new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) are described, diagnosed and illustrated based on adults and/or nymphs collected in Brazil and Colombia. Both species share an uncommon genitalia morphology, which includes a long penis that is curved at base and a long styliger plate. In the case of the species from Brazil, which is also described based on nymphs, gills are devoid of the characteristic lateral lobes found in the other species of the genus.

 

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