A cladistic revision of Tor top us Needham & Murphy with description of the new genus Tortopsis (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae)
Author
Molineri, Carlos
text
Zootaxa
2010
2481
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195431
2df8bd5a-e125-42aa-aa6f-ae3e78b83929
1175-5326
195431
Tortopsis parishi
(Banks)
New combination
Campsurus parishi
Banks 1918
: 10
.
Tortopus parishi
;
Ulmer 1942
: 110
.
Material: the only specimen known (male
holotype
) is deposited at Harvard. In spite of the attempts to borrow the material, neither the specimen nor photographs were available for study.
Discussion and diagnosis. This species is known from one male imago from
Ecuador
(Durar). The original description and figures are inadequate to species characterization but clearly indicate that this species belongs to
Tortopsis
, as is recovered in the phylogenetic tree (
Fig. 1A
). The main feature used to assign the species to
Tortopsis
is the form of the penes, widely separated from each other from their bases. Fore wing length is reported to be
10–12 mm
(
Banks 1918
).