Ephemeroptera

L, Carlos Naranjo, Peters, Janice G., del, Pedro López & Castillo, 2019, Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in Cuba, Insecta Mundi 2019 (736), pp. 1-52 : 3

Ephemeroptera of Cuba

A. Annotated List of Ephemeroptera of Cuba

Table 1.

Below we present an annotated list of species recorded from Cuba with figures and photographs of significant identification characters. We give ecological characteristics (when available), the status of Ephemeroptera as pollution indicator species, and a discussion of altitudinal, seasonal, and geographic distribution and endemism in Cuban Ephemeroptera .

Before 1976, Cuba was divided into six provinces instead of the present 16 provinces. In the discussion below and in the list of paratypes, names of the provinces are given in brackets if different from those given by earlier authors.

For each species, the locality of the holotype is given and distribution data including surveys conducted prior to 2008 by the Department of Biology , Universidad de Oriente, are given in the text ; Appendix 1 itemizes these survey localities. Subsequent, significant new records are discussed in the text, and all records are combined on the distribution maps ( Fig. 2–19 ). Details for paratype localities are included as Appendix 2.

Figures

Figures 1–5. Distribution records for Ephemeroptera in Cuba. 1) Major geographic regions of Cuba (Núñez 1989). 2) Americabaetis naranjoi, Callibaetis floridanus. 3) Cloeodes inferior, C. superior. 4) Caribaetis alcarrazae, C. planifrons, C. grandis. 5) Fallceon longifolius, F. poeyi, F. testudineus, F. sextus.

Figures 6–9. Distribution records for Ephemeroptera in Cuba.6) Paracloeodes lilliputian. 7) Farrodes bimaculatus. 8) Hagenulus caligatus, H. morrisonae. 9) Borinquena sexta, Turquinophlebia grandis, Poecilophlebia pacoi.

Figures 10–13. Distribution records for Ephemeroptera in Cuba.10) Careospina hespera hespera, C.h. sierramaestrae, C. minuta. 11) Careospina baconaoi, C. evanescens. 12) Traverina cubensis, T. oriente. 13) Mesoplocia inaccessibile.

Figures 14–17.Distribution records for Ephemeroptera in Cuba. 14. Tricorythodes sierramaestrae. 15) Tricorythodes sacculobranchis. 16) Tricorythodes cubensis. 17) Tricorythodes montanus.