A new genus of Euthyplociinae from Ecuador (Ephemeroptera: Euthyplociidae)
Author
Gonçalves, Inês C.
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Entomologia. Programa de pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas, modalidade Zoologia, UFRJ / Museu Nacional
inescg.bio@gmail.com
Author
Pescador, Manuel L.
Entomology, College of Agriculture and food Science, Florida A & M University
manuelpescador@gmail.com
Author
Peters, Janice G.
Entomology, College of Agriculture and food Science, Florida A & M University
janice.peters@famu.edu
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-01
4759
1
107
112
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4759.1.7
6758be2d-2f80-4f51-8a19-97bd7ee57d47
1175-5334
3756072
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:28D3DFE9-E50F-474B-B780-F736DBC0E771
Dasyplocia aequatorialis
sp. nov.
Gonçalves, Pescador & Peters
Nymph:
Length: male (mature, black wing-padded)
25 mm
; female (not mature)
29–31 mm
. Specimen coloration fading therefore few color features are described.
Dorsolateral margins of head blackish anterior to antennal insertion; eyes black; ocelli faded but probably white with inner margin black; antennae with scape and pedicel same color as head, flagellum lighter (
Figs 1–3
). Labrum with baso-lateral margins black (
Fig 8
). Color of abdomen completely faded; gills purplish grey. Penes of mature nymph long, fused on basal 1/3, apparently with an apical non-sclerotized process (
Figs 6–7
).
Etymology:
“
aequatorialis
“ – referring to country of
Ecuador
.
Material:
Ecuador
,
Zamora-Chinchipe Province
, small stream
19 km
SE
Paquisha
,
1,010 km
,
21.ix.1990
,
Pescador, M.L.
leg.,
Holotype
:
1 female
nymph (
NMNH
);
paratypes
:
1 mature male nymph (wings dissected, two slides) and
1 female
nymph (mouthparts dissected and illustrated (
FAMU
).