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Issue: Vol. 4236 No. 3: 24 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.3.4
Page range: 484–506
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Taxonomic study of the genus Oxyethira Eaton 1873 (Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Northeast Brazil: Eleven new species and distributional records

Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Caixa Postal 68044, 21941-971 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro—UNIRIO. Av. Pasteur 458, 20290-240, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Laboratório de Sistemática de Insetos, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro—UNIRIO. Av. Pasteur 458, 20290-240, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Trichoptera Hydroptilidae

Abstract

The genus Oxyethira comprises over 200 species distributed worldwide. In Brazil, 23 species have been recorded, mostly from the North Region, but this number is still an underestimate. To date, six species have been recorded from the Northeast Region of Brazil (from Ceará, Piauí, and Pernambuco states). In this work, we describe and illustrate 11 new species from this region: Oxyethira calori sp. nov., O. diplospissa sp. nov., O. guariba sp. nov., O. iannuzzae sp. nov., O. maranhensis sp. nov., O. rafaeli sp. nov., O. gracilianoi sp. nov., O. retrosa sp. nov., O. septentrionalis sp. nov., O. singularis sp. nov., O. una sp. nov. Additionally, new distributional records for five other species are given. These results increase the number of Oxyethira species in Brazil from 23 to 35.

 

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