A new species of Anacroneuria Klapálek 1909 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Espírito Santo State, southeastern Brazil and comments on additional species

Marcos Carneiro Novaes; Pitágoras DA Conceição Bispo; Maísa DE Carvalho Gonçalves

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.7

A new species of Anacroneuria Klapálek 1909 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Espírito Santo State, southeastern Brazil and comments on additional species

Zootaxa. 2016 Dec 14;4208(1):zootaxa.4208.1.7. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.7.

Authors

Marcos Carneiro Novaes¹, Pitágoras DA Conceição Bispo, Maísa DE Carvalho Gonçalves

Affiliation

¹ Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Insetos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES/CEUNES), São Mateus, ES, Brazil. marcoscnovaes@gmail.com.

PMID: 27988542
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.7

Abstract

Specimens of Perlidae (Plecoptera) from Espírito Santo State in southeastern Brazil were studied. A new species, Anacroneuria ruschii n. sp. is described. Brief remarks on A. debilis (Pictet) and Kempnyia neotropica (Jacobson & Bianchi) are also presented.

Keywords: Plecoptera, stoneflies, streams, Neotropical, Atlantic Rainforest, aquatic insects.

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil
Female
Insecta / anatomy & histology*
Insecta / classification*
Male
Species Specificity