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Issue: Vol. 5330 No. 1: 14 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.1.7
Page range: 126-134
Abstract views: 191
PDF downloaded: 16

Three new Oxyethira Eaton 1873 (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Pará State, Northern Brazil

Universidade Estadual de Roraima (UERR); Boa Vista; Roraima; Brazil; Coordenação de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde.
Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG); Coordenação de Zoologia. Belém; Pará; Brazil. Secretaria de Estado de Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade (SEMAS); Belém; Pará; Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Maranhão (UFMA); Colégio Universitário (COLUN); São Luís; Maranhão; Brazil.
Trichoptera Aquatic insects caddisflies Neotropical Region taxonomy

Abstract

Three new species of Oxyethira are described and ilustrated: Oxyethira longisterna sp. nov., Oxyethira gyrosterna sp. nov., and Oxyethira acuminata sp. nov. New country records of Oxyethira macrosterna Flint 1974 and Oxyethira bicornuta Kelley 1983 are also provided.

 

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