Oligoneuriopsis villosus Bojkova , Godunko & Staniczek, 2019

Barber-James, Helen M., Zrelli, Sonia, Yanai, Zohar & Sartori, Michel, 2020, A reassessment of the genus Oligoneuriopsis Crass, 1947 (Ephemeroptera, Oligoneuriidae, Oligoneuriellini), ZooKeys 985, pp. 15-47 : 15

Oligoneuriopsis villosus Bojkova, Godunko & Staniczek, 2019 Figure 15F

Oligoneuriopsis villosus Bojková, Godunko & Staniczek, 2019 in Sroka et al. 2019: 113, figs 5-8 (nymph).

Material examined.

None.

Male and female imagos.

Unknown.

Nymph and eggs.

As described by Sroka et. al. (2019)

Affinities.

The nymph of O. villosus can be easily differentiated from all other known species by the row of long and thin setae on the outer margin of hind femora reaching the apex, a row of long and thin setae on the outer margin of hind tibiae, posterolateral projections of abdominal segments diverging from body axis, the absence of posteromedian projections on abdominal terga, and posteromedian setae on sternites III-IV very long and dense.

Known distribution.

Iran.

Comment.

See comment under O. orontensis regarding reports from Iraq.

Figures

Figure 15. Outline of gill plate III of representative Oligoneuriella (A-C) and Oligoneuriopsis (D-F) species A Oligoneuriella rhenana B Oligoneuriella pallida C Oligoneuriella skoura D Oligoneuriopsis lawrencei E Oligoneuriopsis skhounate F Oligoneuriopsis villosus.