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Leptophlebiidae

  • 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

Family Leptophlebiidae

This is one of the most diverse families of Ephemeroptera in South America, with more than 40 genera recorded for the area (Domínguez et al., 2006). In this study, we registered nine genera from the different localities.

Notes

Published as part of Domínguez, Eduardo, Grillet, Maria-Eugenia, Nieto, Carolina, Molineri, Carlos & Guerrero, Edmundo, 2014, Ephemeroptera from the Venezuelan Guayanas´s Uplands: Families Leptophlebiidae, Euthyplociidae and Oligoneuriidae, pp. 301-317 in Zootaxa 3827 (3) on page 302, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920666

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Ephemeroptera
Family
Leptophlebiidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Dominguez, E., Molineri, C., Pescador, M. L., Hubbard, M. D. & Nieto, C. (2006) Ephemeroptera of South America. Aquatic Biodiversity in Latin America (ABLA) Vol. 2. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 646 pp.