Mesoplocia inaccessibile ( Kluge and Naranjo, 1994 )

L, Carlos Naranjo, Peters, Janice G., del, Pedro López & Castillo, 2019, Ephemeroptera (Insecta) in Cuba, Insecta Mundi 2019 (736), pp. 1-52 : 16

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5170691

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5185086

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Mesoplocia inaccessibile ( Kluge and Naranjo, 1994 )
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A.26. Mesoplocia inaccessibile ( Kluge and Naranjo, 1994) View in CoL

Figures 13 View Figures 10–13 , 53 View Figures 53–57 .

Euthyplocia inaccessibile Kluge and Naranjo 1994:778 (male, nymph).

Holotype. Male, Province Santiago de Cuba, Arroyo Paco (Palma Mocha), 16-V-1985, C. Naranjo.

The large nymphs are easily recognized by the long mandibular tusks. The female is unknown; however, from examination of mature nymphs it is evident that the wing venation of the female resembles that of the male, and the median caudal filament is also reduced. In 1965, the species was collected a second time: 2 male imagos, Río Cayo Guam, Prov. Holguín, 10-VIII-1995, col. R. Teruel ( Naranjo and Teruel 2001). Later, two nymphs were collected from Arroyo 26, La Bayamesa (Sierra Maestra), Prov. Santiago de Cuba, March 2004, col. P. López ( López et al. 2004, 2005).

Ecology. Nymphs were originally collected from a pool in the Arroyo Paco at a depth between 10 and 15 cm partially burrowing in mud between rocks on the river bottom ( Naranjo 1986). Later, nymphs were found in a different microhabitat in the Bayamesa Massif under rocks in headwaters of “ Arroyo el 26” near Bayamesa Peak ( López et al. 2004). This species has a broad altitudinal distribution but seems more common in crystal clear, cold, and well oxygenated streams. From collection data (mature nymphs in February and March, adults in May and August), M. inaccessibile appears to have a univoltine life cycle.

Geographic distribution. The species is an endemic in the Eastern Region with a disjunct distribution between a few adjacent localities in the Sierra Maestra and a similarly isolated population in the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Massif ( Fig. 13 View Figures 10–13 ). It is also reported from the Dominican Republic ( Naranjo and Peters 2016).

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Ephemeroptera

Family

Euthyplociidae

Genus

Mesoplocia

Loc

Mesoplocia inaccessibile ( Kluge and Naranjo, 1994 )

L, Carlos Naranjo, Peters, Janice G., del, Pedro López & Castillo 2019
2019
Loc

Euthyplocia inaccessibile

Kluge, N. & C. Naranjo 1994: 778
1994
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