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 sarae
(Domínguez)
New combination
Tortopus sarae
Domínguez 1985
: 71
;
Molineri 2008
: 13
.
Material (
IML
):
holotype
and 16
paratypes
female imagos from
Argentina
: Jujuy,
10 km
N Ledesma, río Zora,
14-XII-1983
, E. Domínguez col. Other material reported in
Molineri (2008)
. New localities:
10 male
and
10 female
imagos from
Argentina
: Tucumán, Acheral, río Aranillas,
366 m
,
S 27º 6' 59.9"
-
W 65º 27' 43.9"
,
29- XII-2007
, C. Molineri & J. Giordano cols.; 1 reared male adult and 15 nymphs from
Argentina
: Tucumán, ca. Manuela Pedraza, río Balderrama,
335 m
,
S 27º 12' 0.6"
-
W 65º 21' 30.3"
,
14-XI-2009
, C. Molineri col.
FIGURES 87–92.
Tortopsis
, female adults, head and pronotum. 87,
T. bruchianus
; 88,
T. limoncocha
; 89,
T. obscuripennis
; 90,
T. puella
; 91,
T. sarae
; 92,
T. spatula
.
Female imago. Head shaded black between ocelli, occiput without marks. Pronotum with sublateral gray lines not completely separated from the rest of the pigmented area. Furcasternal plates basally contiguous (
Fig. 45
). Wings: veins C, Sc y R1 (and membrane in between) shaded with brownish gray, rest of wing whitish. Vein R3 and short intercalary before it absent in fore wings but some females present a weak vein in zig-zag formed by coalescence of cross veins, with a length of 3 cells or less. Abdominal terga widely pigmented except on sublateral dashes on terga II–VII, black thin median line present on terga I–VIII, tergum IX with a thin pale median line. Sternum VIII with C-shaped sockets (
Figs. 46–47
).
Egg. Suboval, no attachment structures. Length, 355–375 µm; width, 290–305 µm. The chorionic cover is smooth.
FIGURES 93–96.
Polymitarcyidae
, nymphal head: 93,
Asthenopus
sp.; 94,
Campsurus
near
violaceus
; 95,
Tortopus harrisi
; 96,
Tortopsis obscuripennis
.
Discussion and diagnosis.
Tortopsis sarae
is currently known from all the stages (
Domínguez 1985
,
Molineri 2008
). A short description of the female imago is given to complete its characterization. This species can be recognized by: 1) fore wing length 13.0–13.5 (male), 17.5–18.0 (female); 2) wings whitish translucent except C and Sc areas brownish; 3) parastyli moderately curved; 4) penes cylindrical; 5) female parastylus receptor C-shaped (
Figs. 46–47
); 6) head shaded black behind median ocellus, occiput very pale, at most with a small grayish netting near hind margin; 7) female pronotum shaded as in
Tortopsis obscuripennis
.