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Issue: Vol. 5360 No. 3: 27 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.4
Page range: 409-418
Abstract views: 321
PDF downloaded: 13

Stoneflies left over from a mining disaster: new species and records of Perlidae (Plecoptera) from the Doce River basin, southeastern Brazil

Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil; Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos; Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas; Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; Lima; Perú
Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Museu de Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Programa de Pós-graduação em Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Museu de Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Museu de Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Museu de Entomologia; Departamento de Entomologia; Universidade Federal de Viçosa; CEP 36.570-900; Viçosa; MG; Brasil
Plecoptera Aquatic insects Atlantic Forest Biodiversity Neotropics

Abstract

Seven years after a mudflow reached an important area of the Doce River basin, southeastern Brazil, and with the objective of reporting the current Plecoptera fauna, specimens of Anacroneuria Klapálek, 1909 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) were studied. Three new records from this basin are included: A. mineira Novaes & Bispo, 2014; A. atrifrons Klapálek, 1922; and Anacroneuria itatiaiensis Baldin, Bispo & Novaes, 2013. A new species is described: A. piranga sp. nov. Castillo-Velásquez, Gonçalves & Salles. The new species is morphologically similar to A. annulicauda Stark & Kondratieff, 2004 and A. atrifrons, but can be distinguished by the keel of the penial armature, which is flat and pointed at the apex. In addition to its description, photographs of all species are included, as well as a detailed description of the habitat of the new species.

 

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