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 primus
(McDunnough)
New combination
Campsurus manitobensis
Ide, 1941
(syn.)
Campsurus primus
McDunnough, 1924
(orig.)
Tortopus manitobensis
(
Ide)
, 1941
(syn.)
Material (
FAMU
):
2 female
adults from
USA
, Iowa: Cherokee Co., Cherokee,
28-VIII-1953
, H. H. Ross col.; and
3 female
adults from Illinois, Urbana,
16-VIII-1956
, at light, J. Kingsolver col.
Female adult. Length (mm): body, 15.0–16.0; fore wing, 15.0–16.0; hind wing, 7.0; cerci, 5.5. General coloration whitish yellow, pigments very faded (one of the females show some light gray markings described below). Head: with a mediolongitudinal gray line from median ocellus to a transversal V-shaped line between lateral ocelli, remainder completely faded. Thorax: pronotum yellowish with anterior ring shaded gray, and posterior ring shaded with light gray but pattern not distinguishable. Wings: membrane yellowish white, veins yellowish except those near costa shaded gray. Abdomen: shaded gray dorsally, terga with wide median band darker than the rest, except on tergum I–II paler medially, and thin medial blackish line on terga I–VIII. Sternum VIII with large sockets, the sclerotized margin of the socket reaches the anterior margin of the sternum; anterior and posterior margins of socket diverging each other toward medial line; anterior margin slightly sinuous; the depression delimited by the socket is elongated.
Egg. Suboval, no attachment structures. Length, 390–410 µm; width, 310–330 µm.
Discussion and diagnosis. This species is known from adults of both sexes but no formal description of female was found. Here a short description of the female adult is provided based on the scarce material available. This species is widely distributed in
Mexico
,
USA
and
Canada
(
Randolph & McCafferty 2002
).
Tortopsis primus
can be separated from all other species of the genus by: 1) fore wing length
12 mm
(male), 15.0–16.0 mm (female); 2) wings slightly tinted yellowish white, veins yellowish; 3) parastyli long and moderately curved; 4) penes cylindrical, slender; 5) female parastylus receptors large and with divergent anterior and posterior margins of socket; 6) color pattern very faded, apparently a very pale species.