Fittkauneuria adusta Pescador & Edmunds 1994
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
Fittkauneuria adusta Pescador & Edmunds
Fittkauneuria adusta Pescador & Edmunds 1994: 268.
The genus was described for two species, one of them known from nymphs and male imagos, and the other only from nymphs. The species collected in this study is known only from nymphs.
Material. Venezuela, Edo Bolívar, Kamoirán river, 5º37’12’’N – 61º21’47’’W, 1313 m, 23/XI/2005, 1 nymph. Tarotá stream, 5º49’15’’N – 61º25’04’’W, 1324 m, 27/ VI /2007, 3 nymphs. Specimens were deposited at the MLBV (Venezuela) and IBN (Argentina).
Discussion. The nymphs of F. adusta can be characterized by the abdominal gills, in which the dorsal lamellae is ovate, and the ventral tuft is vestigial. From the distribution of its two species, it appears that the genus is restricted to northern Amazonia and Venezuelan highlands.
Distribution. Brazil and Venezuela.
Ecology. Individuals were collected during the rainy season, in partially shaded small and medium size streams, both having a rock-bottom and acidic waters (pH=5).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MLBV
- Event date
- 2005-11-23
- Family
- Oligoneuriidae
- Genus
- Fittkauneuria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ephemeroptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Pescador & Edmunds
- Species
- adusta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-11-23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Fittkauneuria adusta Pescador, 1994 sec. Domínguez, Grillet, Nieto, Molineri & Guerrero, 2014
References
- Pescador, M. L. & Edmunds, G. F. Jr. (1994) New genus of Oligoneuriidae Ephemeroptera) from South America. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 87 (3), 263 - 269.