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 unguiculatus
(Ulmer)
New combination
Campsurus unguiculatus
Ulmer 1920
: 4
.
Tortopus unguiculatus
;
Ulmer 1942
: 109
;
Traver 1950
: 600
.
Material (
ZMH
):
3 male
labeled “
Type
”, “Columbien/Behn vend.
3.XII.1900
.”, “G. Ulmer determ./
1916– 1923
”.
Male imago. General coloration faint in the old pinned
types
. Genitalia: long and cylindrical penes completely separated from their bases (
Fig. 41
); sclerotized spine on inner apical margin with wide rounded base and slightly hooked apex (
Fig. 43
); parastyli long and acute, markedly curved dorsally, the main axis of the basal third, form a 90° angle with the axis of the distal third (
Fig. 42
); parastyli conical and entire, not furrowed longitudinally (
Fig. 41
).
Discussion and diagnosis.
Ulmer (1920)
described this species from
3 male
imagos from
Colombia
, and later (
Ulmer, 1942
) provided a description of a female imago from
Colombia
and cited some male imagos from Reventazón (
Costa Rica
). Additional records exist for this species in
Mexico
,
Nicaragua
(Zelaya) and
Costa Rica
(
Maés 1988
) and
Guatemala
and
Honduras
(
Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty 1996
), but this material should be revised with the new data offered here to confirm its specific identity.
Tortopsis unguiculatus
can be distinguished from all other species of the genus by: 1) fore wing length 9.0–11.0 mm (male), 11.0–12.0 mm (female); 2) wings hyaline translucent, veins whitish translucent; 3) parastyli long and very strongly curved (
Fig. 42
); 4) penes cylindrical, apical spine with wide base and a small hook (
Fig. 43
).