Rodrigues Jackson A O, Nascimento Stênio R S, Raimundi Erikcsen A, Lima Lucas R C
1Universidade Estadual do Piauí-UESPI, Campus Heróis do Jenipapo, Laboratório de Zoologia, Campo Maior, Piauí, Brazil. .
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia-INPA, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia-PPGEnt, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil..
Zootaxa. 2023 Jan 19;5230(1):27-47. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.1.2.
The genus Miroculis Edmunds, 1963 (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) is endemic to South American with 27 described species. In Brazil, 21 of these are known to occur. The present paper describes three new species of Miroculis Edmunds, 1963. Miroculis (Miroculis) botafora sp. nov. is described based on a male imago collected in a transition area between the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes in Piauí State, Brazil. Two species are described based on nymphs and adults: Miroculis (Miroculis) azevedoi sp. nov. and Miroculis (Miroculis) quilombola sp. nov.; both were collected in a Cerrado region of Maranhão State, Brazil. Additionally, new distribution records of Miroculis (Miroculis) fittkaui Savage & Peters, 1983 are provided.
米罗库蠓属(Miroculis)由埃德蒙兹于1963年建立(蜉蝣目:细裳蜉科),为南美特有属,已描述27个物种。在巴西,已知有其中21个物种分布。本文描述了米罗库蠓属的3个新物种。米罗库蠓(米罗库蠓亚属)博塔福拉新种(Miroculis (Miroculis) botafora sp. nov.)是根据在巴西皮奥伊州塞拉多和卡廷加生物群落过渡区采集的一只雄性成虫描述的。另外两个新物种是根据若虫和成虫描述的:米罗库蠓(米罗库蠓亚属)阿泽维多新种(Miroculis (Miroculis) azevedoi sp. nov.)和米罗库蠓(米罗库蠓亚属)基隆博拉新种(Miroculis (Miroculis) quilombola sp. nov.);二者均采自巴西马拉尼昂州的一个塞拉多地区。此外,还提供了米罗库蠓(米罗库蠓亚属)菲特考伊蠓(Miroculis (Miroculis) fittkaui Savage & Peters, 1983)的新分布记录。