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Issue: Vol. 332 No. 1: 21 Oct. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-10-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.332.1.1
Page range: 1–12
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 32

Life stage descriptions, taxonomic notes, and new records for the mayfly family Leptohyphidae (Ephemeroptera)

Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2475, USA
Department of Biology, Southern Connecticut State University, 501 Crescent St., New Haven, Connecticut 06515, USA
Department of Biology, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma 73034-0177, USA
Ephemeroptera Leptohyphidae Tricorythodes taxonomy stage descriptions new records

Abstract

The larval stages of Tricorythodes fictus Traver, T. cobbi Alba-Tercedor and Flannagan, and T. mosegus Alba-Tercedor and Flannagan are described for the first time based upon reared specimens. The rarely reported Asioplax dolani (Allen) is newly documented from the Austroriparian ecological region of Texas. Leptohyphes zalope Traver, known from the southwestern United States and much of Central America, is newly documented from the Caribbean Islands of Grenada and Tobago. This represents only the second leptohyphid mayfly known from both Continental America and the Caribbean region. Additional Caribbean records of Allenhyphes flinti (Allen) are also given.

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