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Issue: Vol. 4963 No. 2: 19 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.2.9
Page range: 384–392
Abstract views: 120
PDF downloaded: 6

Description of a new species, nymphs of two known species and a new record of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Brazil

Instituto Federal Farroupilha, Campus Alegrete - Alegrete, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
CONICET—Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.
Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Entomologia, Museu de Entomologia, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Aquatic insects Hagenulinae Neotropical Region Taxonomy Biodiversity Ephemeroptera

Abstract

Miroculis is one of the most diversified Neotropical genera of Leptophlebiidae in South America with 26 species currently known. In this work we describe a new species of Miroculis based on imagos from Amazonas, and the unknown nymphs of Miroculis (Miroculis) caparaoensis and Miroculis (Ommaethus) misionensis, both associated with imagos. In addition, Miroculis (Ommaethus) misionensis is recorded for the first time from Brazil.

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