Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) from Roraima State, Brazil: description of two new species of Ulmeritoides Domínguez, 1991
Author
Neto, Jaime De Liege Gama
Author
Passos, Mahedy Araujo Bastos
text
Zootaxa
2016
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2
295
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.8
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Ulmeritoides mirr
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 3–4
,
10 –14
)
Diagnosis:.
Ulmeritoides mirr
sp. nov.
can be separated from all congeners by the following combination of characters: 1) forewing and hind wing with membrane hyaline, except for base tinged with dark brown and costal and subcostal areas light brown (
Fig. 10
); 2) apex of posterior scutal protuberance with a transversal yellowish line (
Fig. 4
); 3) penis lobes with a ventral groove, apex rounded (
Figs. 13–14
).
FIGURES 10–14.
Ulmeritoides mirr
sp. nov.
, (10) Forewing; (11) Hind wing; (12) Hind wing enlarged; (13) Genitalia (ventral view); (14) Penis enlarged (ventrolateral view).
Maximum length
: body
10.8–11.5mm
(n=10); forewings:
6.9–7.1mm
(n=10); hindwings
0.9–1.1mm
(n=10)
Head
(
Figs. 3–4
): general coloration blackish. Frons black. Upper portion of compounds eyes light brown; lower portion blackish. Ocelli white, surrounded with black. Antennae brown.
Thorax
(
Figs. 3–4
): pro-, meso- and metanotum light brown; mesoscutelar impression blackish; mesoscutal suture yellow; apex of the posterior scutal protuberance with a yellow line; pleura yellowish shaded with brown. Sterna brown.
Wings
(
Figs. 10–12
): membrane hyaline, with brown base. Forewings with costal and subcoastal areas light brown; longitudinal veins brown; cross vein translucent brown; blackish spot on bulla of vein Sc; costal membrane with 0–4 cross veins basal to bulla. Hind wings with longitudinal and cross veins brown.
Legs
: leg I with coxae and femora yellowish-brown; tibiae light brown; tarsi and tarsal claws brown. Legs II and III with coxae and femora yellowish-brown; tibiae whitish, with apex shaded with light brown; tarsi and tarsal claws of both legs white. Leg II with tarsal segments I–III shaded with brown on basal 2/3.
Abdomen:
(
Figs. 3–4
): Terga I–VII completely grayish-brown; terga VIII–IX yellowish-brown. Sterna grayish brown, except sternum IX, yellowish-brown.
Genitalia
(
Figs. 13–14
): styliger plate yellowish-brown; penes and forceps grayish-brown. Apex of penis lobes rounded; each lobe with a longitudinal ventral groove. Caudal filaments yellowish-brown with black ring at the base of each segment.
Female imago and nymph.
Unknown.
Material.
HOLOTYPE
:
1 male
imago,
BRAZIL
,
Roraima
State,
Mucajaí
municipality, stream in
Tamandaré
vicinity (2°28’50.53’’"N/
60°55'29.52"W
),
30.v. 2016
a
3.vi.2016
,
Cruz, J.A.
, coll. (INPA—EPH 000016)
.
PARATYPES
:
9 male
imagos, same data as holotype (5 INPA—EPH 0 0 0 0 17 and 4 CZNC—EP 7007).
Etymology.
The epithet "
mirr
", noum in apposition, is in honor of the Museu Integrado de
Roraima
(
MIRR
), institution who has supported research on
Ephemeroptera
in
Roraima
.
Remarks.
Ulmeritoides mirr
sp. nov.
resembles
U. passorum
because of the yellowish transversal line on the apex of the posterior scutal protuberance, apex of penes lobes rounded and both penes and forceps light brown. Despite that it keys out as
Ulmeritoides angelus
Souto, Da-Silva, Nessimian & Gonçalves,
2016
in the identification key proposed by
Salles & Domínguez (2012)
and modified by
Souto
et al
. (2016)
. However, the new species can be easily distinguished from
U. passorum
by the forewings with costal and subcostal areas tinged with brown and lobes of penis with a ventral groove. The new species can be separated from
U. angelus
by the penis lobes with a ventral groove and without a spine.