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Gripopteryx coruja Froehlich 1993

Description

Gripopteryx coruja Froehlich, 1993

Gripopteryx coruja Froehlich, 1993, p 25.

Gripopteryx coruja — Froehlich, 2010, p 132.

Material examined. Holotype male: BRAZIL, São Paulo, Salesópolis, Estação Biológica de Boracéia, pedreira: 11.ix.1990. Paratype: 1 female, same data as holotype except for: 9.viii.1990; 1 nymph, same data as holotype except for: 12.vii.1988.

Diagnostic characters. General color light brown, length of fore wing 13.0– 15.1 mm in males and 17.6–18.6 mm in females (Froehlich 1993); male tergum 10 triangular, apex rounded; paraprocts of male large, simple apex rounded; few longer bristles in some cercomeres in basal half of cerci (Froehlich 1993); female subgenital plate straight without lobes or apical notch (Froehlich 1993); pronotum of nymphs with two pairs of long spines, meso- and metanotum with a pair of anterior spines and an unpaired posterior one; abdominal spines of the seventh or eighth to tenth segments progressively longer, that of tergum 10 long and straight (Froehlich 1993).

Notes

Published as part of Lecci, Lucas Silveira & Froehlich, Claudio Gilberto, 2011, Taxonomic revision of Gripopteryx (Pictet, 1841) (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae), pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2792 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276976

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Gripopterygidae
Genus
Gripopteryx
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Plecoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Froehlich
Species
coruja
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gripopteryx coruja Froehlich, 1993 sec. Lecci & Froehlich, 2011

References

  • Froehlich, C. G. (1993) Brazilian Plecoptera 7. Old and new species of Gripopteryx (Gripopterygidae). Aquatic Insects, 15, 21 - 28.
  • Froehlich, C. G. (2010) Catalogue of Neotropical Plecoptera. Illiesia 6, 118 - 205.