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Issue: Vol. 4299 No. 2: 27 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.7
Page range: 271–278
Abstract views: 65
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A new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Cerrado-Amazonian forest transition zone, Brazil

Programa de Pós-graduação em Biologia Animal. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil, CEP 29075-910 Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, CEP 29.933-415, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, CEP 78.690-000, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil.
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, CEP 78.690-000, Nova Xavantina, MT, Brazil.
Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, CEP 29.933-415, São Mateus, ES, Brazil.
Ephemeroptera Neotropical region mayfly aquatic insect taxonomy description

Abstract

A new species of Miroculis is described based on all developmental stages (nymph, and male and female imagos). Miroculis yulieae sp. nov. is recorded from the transitional area of Cerrado-Amazonia, Brazil.

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