Publication details

New species of mayflies (Ephemeroptera) from Cape Verde

Authors

SOLDÁN Tomáš BOJKOVÁ Jindřiška

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Zootaxa
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3926.4.6
Field Zoology
Keywords Cape Verde; Macaronesia; West Africa; Cloeon; Baetidae; new species
Description To date, no mayflies have been described from Cape Verde, an archipelago of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean. Based on the material collected on two islands, Santo Antao and Santiago, two species of the genus Cloeon Leach, 1815 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) are described based on larvae and imagines. Cloeon morna sp. n., collected in Santo Antao,and C. sidadi sp. n., collected in Santiago, have 3-segmented maxillary palps and tapered labial palps of larvae. The new species can be distinguished from each other and from other West-African species of the genus mainly according to details of the lateral spines on larval abdominal segments and characteristic colourations of vitta and terga in female imagines and colours of male turbinate eyes. Affinities to the West African species of the genus are discussed.

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