Plecoptera from Minas Gerais State, southeastern Brazil
Author
Novaes, Marcos Carneiro
Author
Bispo, Pitágoras Da Conceição
text
Zootaxa
2014
3856
3
433
442
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3856.3.8
10917aba-96da-4e71-90cd-bc7f55d504dc
1175-5326
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Anacroneuria mineira
n. sp.
Figs. 8–12
Material examined:
Holotype
male (
MZSP
). BR, MG, Santana do Riacho, Serra do Cipó, Rio Cipó in Cardeal Mota—Cachoeira Baixa (
S19°20'55.30"
W43°38'53.10"
),
10.xi.2001
, RWH, HP, RJB.
Description:
Forewing length
16.1 mm
, total body length
19.8 mm
. General color yellowish. Head yellowish with central part darker (
Fig. 8
); postfrontal line U-shaped; antennae ochraceous; palpi yellowish. Pronotum yellowish with rugosities, lateral bands ochraceous (
Fig. 8
). Legs yellowish to ochraceous, tibia and tarsi darker. Wing membrane and veins pale. Cerci ochraceous. Hammer a truncate cone (
Fig. 9
). Penial armature in ventral/ dorsal views (
Figs. 10–11
) narrowing gradually towards a truncate apex; hooks regularly curved with pointed tips; presence of a pair of subapical ventral vesicles; in lateral view (
Fig. 12
), a slightly elevated dorsal keel and apex bent ventrally.
Remarks:
The penial armature of
A. mineira
n. sp.
in lateral view resembles
A. oculatila
Jewett 1959
and
A. coscaroni
Froehlich 2002
, however, in ventral view, differs by the wider apex (
Fig. 11
) and the size of the gonopore (larger in
A. mineira
). Additionally,
A. mineira
is lighter and larger than the other two species.
Etymology:
from Minas Gerais, state where the
holotype
was collected.