Two new species of Afronurus Lestage, 1924, from Hong Kong, China (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)
Braasch, Dietrich
Jacobus, Luke M.
Zootaxa
2011
3062
64
68
65H6C
[151,336,1568,1594]
Insecta
Heptageniidae
Afronurus
Animalia
Ephemeroptera
2
66
Arthropoda
species
otus
sp. nov.
Male adult(in ethanol). Lengths: body 7.2 mm; fore wing 8.2 mm; cerci broken. Compound eyes dark violet, pale apically, with dark ring at base; contiguous. Thorax light yellow (faded). Wings hyaline, pterostigmal region opaque. Legs light yellow, forelegs with ratios of femur: tibia: tarsi (I–V) = 115:125:159 (35:47:40:19:18); hindlegs 102:77:30 (7:5:5:3:10). Abdomen translucent, with no apparent pattern (probably faded). Penes relatively simple, with small, acute distal projections; distinctive bifurcation at tip of each penis lobe, with sharply pointed prongs subequal in size. Larva.Unknown.
Etymology.The specific epithet is a noun in apposition, a reference to the owl-like shape of the penes.
Diagnosis. Afronurus otus, sp. nov., has a distinctive bifurcation at the tip of each penis lobe, with sharply pointed prongs that are subequal in size.
Typematerial(in 70% ethanol). Holotype: male adult, Hong Kong, Fan Ling, 16/III/1967, M.T. Gillies [ PCDB].