Tikuna bilineata (Needham & Murphy) Needham & Murphy, 2005

Peters, J. G., Flowers, R. W., Hubbard, M. D., Domínguez, E. & Savage, H. M., 2005, New records and combinations for Neotropical Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera), Zootaxa 1054, pp. 51-60 : 52

Tikuna bilineata (Needham & Murphy) comb. n.

Choroterpes bilineata Needham & Murphy 1924:48 ; Traver 1947:156.

The genus Tikuna was established by Savage et al. (2005) and Choroterpes atramentum Traver, 1947 , was designated as the type species. Following this publication, two species from South and Central America remain incorrectly placed in Choroterpes . The first, Choroterpes bilineata Needham & Murphy, 1924 , originally described from female imagos and male subimagos from La Chorrera, Putumayo Dist., Peru (now a part of Colombia), also belongs to the genus Tikuna , requiring the new combination Tikuna bilineata . The holotype and paratypes (Cornell University) were studied by one of us (H.M. Savage); additional specimens deposited at the U. S. National Museum of Natural History, Florida A&M University, and the Zoologische Sammlung des Bayerischen Staates were recorded from Brazil, Ecuador, Surinam, and Venezuela. New records for T. bilineata follow:

BRAZIL: 1 female imago, Pará State, Rio Cururu, about 100 km above Mission Cururu, at light, 25–I–1962, E.J. Fittkau.

ECUADOR: Pastaza Prov., coll. J. Cohen: 37 female imagos, Tzapino, 32 km NE Tigueno, 1°11' S, 77°14' W, 400 m, 25–V–1976; 2 female imagos, Limoncocha (70 miles SE), 30–V–1976; 3 female imagos, Cononaco, 30–V–1976.

SURINAM: 1 female imago, Wijne Dist., Moengo, Boven, 1/ 28–V–1927, P.P. Babiy.

VENEZUELA: Zulia State: 1 male subimago, Dist. Mara, Río Socuy, Campamento Corpozulia, 50 km W of Carrasquero, 6/ 7–X–1979, H.M. Savage & R.A. Romero; 1 female imago, Perija El Tucuco, Mission El Tucuco, Río El Tucuco, 1/ 2 km from church, 1/ 5–X–1979, H.M. Savage.