INVESTIGADORES
NIETO PEÑALVER Maria Carolina
artículos
Título:
Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the Pantepui biogeographical province
Autor/es:
DERKA, NIETO & SVITOK
Revista:
Boletin de la Asociación Española de Entomologia
Editorial:
Asociacion española de entomología
Referencias:
Año: 2012 vol. 36 p. 119 - 135
ISSN:
0210-8984
Resumen:
The term Pantepui refers to a discontinuous biogeographical province formed by anassemblage of about 50 table mountain summits (tepuis) in southern Venezuela, northernBrazil, and western Guyana. The elevation of the Pantepui ranges from 1,500 to 3,000 ma. s. l. and the total summit area extends up to 5,000 km2. Until now, only 6 species fromfamilies Baetidae (Parakari auyanensis, P. churiensis), Leptophlebiidae (Miroculis bicoloratus,Hagenulopsis minuta, Massartella devani) and Oligoneuriidae (Fittkauneuria carina)had been described or reported from the Pantepui region. Three Venezuelan tepuis have beenrecently explored by several international speleological expeditions. As a result, an additionalfive genera of the family Baetidae (Baetodes, Callibaetis, Camelobaetidius, Cloeodes, Spiritiops),as well as the species Fittkauneuria adusta (Oligoneuriidae) and some undescribedrepresentatives of the genera Massartella, Miroculis and Hagenulopsis are reported for thefirst time from the Pantepui province.
