Leentvaaria palpalis Demoulin 1966
Creators
- 1. Instituto de Biodiversidad Neotropical (IBN), CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Miguel Lillo 205. 4.000 Tucumán, Argentina. E-mail: mayfly @ unt. edu. ar
- 2. Laboratorio de Biología de Vectores y Parásitos, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela, AP 47058, Caracas 1041 - A, Venezuela. E-mail: maria. grillet @ ciens. ucv. ve
- 3. Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola Francisco Fernández Yépez, Facultad de Agronomia, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, AP 4579, Maracay, Venezuela. E-mail: edmundo. guerrero @ miza-ucv. org. ve
Description
Leentvaaria palpalis Demoulin
Demoulin, 1966: 14; Domínguez et al., 2001: 314.
Material. Venezuela, Edo Bolívar, Kamá river 5º 25’ 11’’N – 61º 13’ 05’’W, 1035 m, 20/ III /2006, 1 nymph. Yuruaní river, 5º 05’ 32’’N – 61º 05’ 47’’W, 880 m, 25/XI/2005, 1 nymph. Parupa river, 5º 40’ 49’’N – 61º 32’ 39’’W, 1281 m, 19/ III /2006, 4 nymphs. Collectors: MEG, EG and AMO. Specimens were deposited at the MLBV (Venezuela) and IBN (Argentina).
Discussion. This species was described only from nymphs, that are very unusual and easy to recognize for the very long labial palpi, which also present a basal prominence on segment I. Apparently, due to the scarce number of nymphs collected, this species is not very common in the region. This is the first time it is collected in Venezuela.
Distribution. Surinam, Brazil, Venezuela (new country record).
Ecology. Nymphs were collected from the submerged substrates within the rivers during the rainy (November 2005) and dry (March 2006) seasons. Rivers were large water courses (30 m – 70 m wide), non-shaded, with bottom of rocks and gravels and acidic waters (pH=5).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MEG, EG, AMO, MLBV
- Event date
- 2005-11-25
- Family
- Leptophlebiidae
- Genus
- Leentvaaria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ephemeroptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Demoulin
- Species
- palpalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-11-25
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leentvaaria palpalis Demoulin, 1966 sec. Domínguez, Grillet, Nieto, Molineri & Guerrero, 2014
References
- Demoulin, G. (1966) Contribution a` l'etude des Ephemeropteres du Surinam. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 42, 1 - 22.
- Dominguez, E., Ferreira, M. J. & Nieto, C. (2001) Redescription and phylogenetic relationships of Leentvaaria Demoulin (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae). In: Dominguez, E. (Ed.), Trends in research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera Kluwer Academic / Plenum, New York, pp. 313 - 320.