New Species Of And Keys To South American Gripopterygidae (Plecoptera)
Author
McLellan, Ian D.
and Peter Zwick & P. O. Box 95, Westport, New Zealand E-mail: mclellan @ xtra. co. nz
mclellan@xtra.co.nz
Author
Zwick, Peter
Limnologische Fluss-Station des Max-Planck-Instituts für Limnologie, Schlitz, Germany Correspondence: Peter Zwick, Schwarzer Stock 9, D- 36110 Schlitz, Germany E-mail: pleco-p. zwick @ t-online. de
pleco-p.zwick@t-online.de
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Illiesia
2007
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Antarctoperlinae
gen. sp. II
(
Figs. 24
‐
29
)
Material examined.
2 LA,
Argentina
,
Neuquen
,
Rio Litran
,
5 km
.
N. Lago Alumine
1 March
.1978
CMF
&
OSF
;
8 LA,
Argentina
,
Neuquen
,
Ao. Purumeco, NW Lago Alumine
1 March 1978
CMF
&
OSF
;
1 LA,
Chile
,
Malleco
, small stream
20 km
E
. Liucura,
1750 m
,
4 February 1987
,
CMF
&
OSF
, (
February
97 in
LFS
)
;
1 LA,
Argentina
,
Neuquen
, small stream,
10 km
S
.
Pino Hachado
,
4. February 1987
,
CMF
&
OSF
, (
February
97 in
LFS
)
;
4 LA,
Chile
,
Malleco Prov.
,
Cordillera
de las
Raices
,
37 km
E Curacautin
,
5
‐
6 February 1979
,
1100 m
, DD,
MD
&
DA
(
97 in
LFS
)
;
39 LA,
Chile
,
Malleco
, small stream,
9 km
W Lonquimay
,
5 February 1987
,
CMF
&
OSF
(3 remain as duplicates in
LFS
)
. 8 LA “9/12 o” among unsorted material in coll. Illies, locality and date unknown.
Dimensions.
Larva (last instar): body length 12.5
‐
13.0; antenna 7.0; cerci 2.5.
Larva.
Dark brown, muscle attachments on head and thorax darker. Scape and pedicel plus some flagellar segments (about segments 7
‐
12) darker brown than rest of antenna. Similarly, tip of first cercus segment and the next 6
‐
8 segments distinctly darker brown than rest of cercus. Clothed with short dark procumbent setae (
Fig. 25
) except side edges of thorax and caudal edges of abdominal segments which have setal fringes as described below.
Figs. 24
‐
29.
Antarctoperlinae
gen.sp. II, larva. 24, habitus; 25, detail of pronotal lateral margin; 26, hypopharynx, lateral; 27, same, dorsal; 28, rear part of an abdominal tergite, with surface pilosity and caudal setal fringe; 29, abdominal tip, lateral.
Head: Massive, dorsal face flat, occipital area strongly downcurved. Eyes large, no ocelli. Central depression shallow, indistinct. Unpaired cephalic suture long, branches initially diverging at right angle, then bent abruptly sidewards, meeting inner edge of eyes and curving forward alongside them, behind antennae. Frons descending stepwise to clypeus, labrum with large articulation membrane. Genae as high as the large antennal scape and cut off and rounded level with the scape. Mouthparts similar to
Antarctoperlinae
gen. sp. I. Antennae about half as long as body, scape large, pedicel dark, basally strongly constricted. Base of flagellum distinctly expanded, segments on wide part of flagellum very short and distinguished by rings of strong short setae whose tips curve back against flagellum; narrow distal segments almost twice longer than wide, hairs hardly noticeable.
Thorax. Nota flanged, the edges with a fringe of prominent setae with truncate tips. Pronotum as wide as head, wider than long, almost rectangular with a short blunt extension of the anterior angles. Wingpads short and triangular. Legs. Short, hind legs shorter than the abdomen and clothed dorsally with a few dark setae. Tibiae triangular with a sharp outer edge. Tarsi with the usual short segment 1 and 2 and large claws.
Abdomen short and wider medially, the segments are complete rings, their hind margins with a fringe of prominent dark setae. Hind margin of tergite 10 rounded. Subanal lobes each with a long pointed projection. Cerci short and threadlike, their extremities clothed with a ring of short setae.
Remarks.
The short triangular wing pads probably indicate that some adults may be short winged. Both
Antarctoperlinae
gen.sp. I and II have a broad flanged thorax and long, almost straight paraproctal spines. The prominent pronotal corners and long setae of the abdominal hair fringes distinguish sp. I from sp. II. The latter has blunt corners of pronotum and short peg
‐
like setae in abdominal fringes.