Two new species and a new record of Anacroneuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Central Brazil
Author
Bispo, Pitágoras Da Conceição
Author
Costa, Lucas De Souza Machado
Author
Novaes, Marcos Carneiro
text
Zootaxa
2014
3779
5
591
596
journal article
46191
10.11646/zootaxa.3779.5.9
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Anacroneuria meloi
n. sp.
Bispo & Novaes
Figs. 6
–10.
Material examined.
Holotype
: male: BR, GO, Cidade de Goiás, Fazenda Ferreirinha,
04.x.2003
(
UNESP
).
Description.
Forewing length
8.3 mm
. General color light brown. Head brownish with clypeal area and M line lighter (
Fig. 6
); lappets brownish; gena and parietalia ochraceous; postfrontal line U-shaped; antenna and palps brownish. Pronotum brownish, darker laterally and with lighter median strip (
Fig. 6
). Legs, femora ochraceous to brownish, tibia and tarsi brownish. Wing membrane and veins brownish. Cerci brownish.
Male.
Hammer a truncate cone (
Fig. 7
); penial armature with a pair of large distal membranous vesicles (
Figs. 8–9
) and apex bent dorsally in lateral view (Fig. 10); hooks relatively large, regularly curved and with apex pointed (
Fig. 9
).
Remarks.
The penial armature of
A. meloi
bears a resemblance to that of
A. debilis
in ventral and dorsal views. However,
A. meloi
is smaller and the penial armature has larger membranous vesicles and lacks a prominent keel in lateral view.
Etymology.
The patronym honors Dr Adriano Sanches Melo one of collectors of the
holotype
.