Traverina cubensis Peters and Alayo, 1971

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A.24. Traverina cubensis Peters and Alayo, 1971

Figures 12 , 37, 39b .

Traverina cubensis Peters and Alayo in Peters 1971:10 (male and female imagos, nymph).

Hagenulus (Traverina) cubensis ; Kluge 1994:282 (egg).

Holotype. Male imago, [Artemisa Province], Río Cuzco , March 1965, P. Alayo.

Species of Traverina are recognized by expanded gills with three processes, the median process much longer than the laterals. Originally described from the Río Cuzco, T. cubensis can be recognized by gills with acute lateral processes.

Ecology. There is no ecological data for this species. Specimens were collected in the months of March and June ( Peters 1971) and in April of 1989 (Kluge 1994).

Geographic distribution. Traverina cubensis is found only in the Western Region, especially in the Province of Artemisa (formerly Pinar del Río) ( Fig. 12 ). Since the original description, it has only been collected once (in 1989) near the type locality (Kluge 1994). Nymphs mentioned by Peters (1971) from Rio de San Antonio, Charco Azul, Trinidad Mountains, 23,29- III-1939, J. G. Needham, have gills similar to T. cubensis but a very different color pattern. In the absence of adults or fresh material, it has never been described.

Figures

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 36–40. Leptophlebiidae.36) Traverina oriente. 36a) Habitus.36b) Abdominal gill.37) Traverina cubensis, abdominal gill. 38) Poecilophlebia pacoi, lateral abdominal gills 5–7. 39) Claw of Traverina. 39a) T. oriente. 39b) T. cubensis. 40) Farrodes bimaculatus. 40a) Habitus. 40b) Sterna 7–9. 40c) Male abdominal color. 40d) Female habitus. 40e) Claw.