First records of the genus Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Tocantins State, Brazil and description of a new species

Mellis Layra Soares Rippel; Marcos Carneiro Novaes; Tiago Kütter Krolow

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.2.8

First records of the genus Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Tocantins State, Brazil and description of a new species

Zootaxa. 2019 Feb 25;4560(2):zootaxa.4560.2.8. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.2.8.

Authors

Mellis Layra Soares Rippel¹, Marcos Carneiro Novaes, Tiago Kütter Krolow

Affiliation

¹ Laboratório de Entomologia, Programa de Pós Graduação em Biodiversidade, Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Tocantins, Porto Nacional, TO, Brazil.. mellisrippel@gmail.com.

PMID: 31716585
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.2.8

Abstract

Adults of Anacroneuria Klapálek (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from an unexplored area of the Tocantins State, Brazil were studied. As result, we describe A. zantedeschia n. sp and present new geographic records for the genus. Additionally, we also include comments for A. corae Bispo Novaes, A. debilis (Pictet), A. marlieri Froehlich, A. minuta Klapálek, A. singularis Righi-Cavallaro Lecci and A. otafroehlichi Righi-Cavallaro Lecci.

Keywords: Plecoptera, stoneflies, taxonomy, aquatic insects, Brazilian savannah, distribution, streams.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil
Insecta*