Tupiperla pinhoi, Duarte & Novaes & Bispo, 2019

Duarte, Tácio, Novaes, Marcos Carneiro & Bispo, Pitágoras Da Conceição, 2019, Five new species of Tupiperla Froehlich, 1969 (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae), Zootaxa 4671 (4), pp. 511-526 : 513-517

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4671.4.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:178940F3-1139-4F8D-9E6E-71EAB384574A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5670236
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/587A87C8-FFA0-FFBE-03E2-C4E7FC9BFE87
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Tupiperla pinhoi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Tupiperla pinhoi View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 A–B, Figs. 3 View FIGURE 3 A–C)

Material Examined. Holotype. Male. Brazil: Santa Catarina: Urubici, Cachoeira do Avencal , 1229 m a.s.l., S28°02.798, W49°37.070, 08.i.2010, net, HF Mendes, LC Pinho & RA Moretto col. ( MZSP). GoogleMaps

Measurement. Holotype, male: head width, 1.0 mm; pronotum width, 0.83 mm; pronotum length, 0.64 mm; forewing length, 7.9 mm; hind wing length, 6.7 mm; antenna length, 8.1 mm; 15 cercomeres.

Description. Tupiperla pinhoi sp. nov. is a medium sized species. General color brownish to ochraceous. Head brownish with a lighter area in front of the coronal fork, and laterally to the eyes ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ); ocelli and eyes black; anterior part of frons brown; labrum light brown, darker than clypeus; lateral part of the head, behind the eyes, with a dark brown band. Maxillary and labial palpi ochraceous. Antenna light brown. Pronotum squarish, light brown, narrower than the head and with some little setae covering it ( Fig. 2A View FIGURE 2 ). Legs light brown, covered with thin bristles; femur with disto-ventral spine; tibia with two distal spurs; tarsi with tarsomere 1 medium, tarsomere 2 short, and tarsomere 3 long. Wings membranous, light brown; forewing with a conspicuous darker pattern bordering veins and crossveins; pterostigmatic crossvein absent, RA unforked, RP forked and CuA long-forked; hind wing with M3+4, near its separation from M1+2, fused with CuA in part of its length, CuA short forked, 6th anal vein fused with hind margin of wing ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ).

Male. Abdomen brownish to ochraceous with slightly lighter band on abdominal terga 1–9. T10 light brown to ochraceous. T10 extension, in dorsal view, large, distally darker, ending in two separated and out curved teeth ( Fig. 3A View FIGURE 3 ); in lateral view, straight dorsally and with a clear latero-ventral band ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Paraprocts, in ventral view, thin, medially curved with thin bristles internally and conspicuous minute teeth on dorsal (outer) margin ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ); in lateral view, with constant width over most of its length, dorsal margin darker and medially covered with minute teeth, distal region with an accentuated hook-shaped curvature ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Subgenital plate ochraceous, ovoid-shaped and with apex prolonged between the paraprocts ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Epiproct absent.

Female and nymph. Unknown.

Remarks. Tupiperla pinhoi can be distinguished from the congeners by the shape of the paraprocts and the T10 extension in males. The median dorsal margin of the paraprocts in T. pinhoi are covered by minute teeth, and the distal region has a distinct hook-shaped curvature. Only T. illiesi , T. reichardti Froehlich, 1998 , and T. serrulata sp. nov. have minute teeth on the dorsal margin of the paraprocts. However, in T. illiesi each paraproct has a small and thin latero-distal spine, whereas in T. reichardti , each paraproct has a large latero-medial spine and in T. serrulata sp. nov., the paraprocts lack a lateral spine.

Tupiperla pinhoi was collected in 2010 at the Avencal Waterfall, at 1229 m a.s.l. in the municipality of Urubici, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The waterfall is 100 m high and it formed by the Funil River. The common vegetation in the area is the “avenca” ( Pteridaceae : Adiantum sp.).

Etymology. The specific name pinhoi honors Prof. Dr. Luiz Carlos de Pinho for his contribution to aquatic entomology, especially related to Brazilian chironomids.