Potamocloeon Gillies 1990

Kluge, Nikita J., 2019, Potamocloeon edentatum sp. n. from Usambara Mountains in Tanzania (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae), Zootaxa 4648 (2), pp. 299-317 : 300-302

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4648.2.6

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Potamocloeon Gillies 1990
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Potamocloeon Gillies 1990

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Genus Potamocloeon Gillies 1990b: 207 (imago, non larva; type species Cloeon dentatum Kimmins 1956 ); Lugo-Ortiz & Mc- Cafferty 1996 (imago, non larva).

Genus Maliqua Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty 1997: 368 (larva and imago; type species Afroptilum plumosum Wuillot, in Wuillot & Gillies 1993 ); synonymized with Potamocloeon by Kluge (2018: 117).

Part of genus Cloeodes View in CoL (= Potamocloeon = Maliqua ): Jacobus, McCafferty & Gattolliat 2006: 131.

Genus Potamocloeon: Salles & Gattolliat & Sartori 2016: 108 (larva and imago).

Type species: Cloeon dentatum Kimmins 1956 .

Species composition of Potamocloeon . This genus contains African species originally described under the names dentatum Kimmins 1956 [ Cloeon ], plumosum Wuillot (in Wuillot & Gillies) 1993 [ Afroptilum ], abdallahi McCafferty 2000 [ Maliqua ] and the new species described in this paper.

The species names dentatum [ Cloeon ], plumosum [ Afroptilum ] and abdallahi [ Maliqua ] are regarded as subjective synonyms ( Jacobus et al. 2006). Wuillot and Gillies (1993) did not originally compare Afroptilum plumosum with Cloeon dentatum ; male imagines of these forms have identical structure of genitals, that testifies that they really belong to one and the same species. Maliqua abdallahi McCafferty 2000 was originally described as larvae and compared with the larval description of Afroptilum plumosum ; most of the reported differences between these two species are inconsistent. However, it is possible that Potamocloeon abdallahi (McCafferty 2000) is a valid species characterized by colorless tracheae of tergalii, while Potamocloeon dentatum (= plumosum ) and the new species P. edentatum sp n. have well pigmented tracheae. The validity of P. abdallahi is questionable, while its imago is unknown.

In addition to these continental African species, four species were described from Madagascar and originally placed in the genus Cloeodes : portabilis Lugo-Ortiz et al. 1999 [ Cloeodes ], bicoloratus Gattolliat 2001 [ Cloeodes ], freitagae Gattolliat 2001 [ Cloeodes ], pseudogladius Gattolliat 2001 [ Cloeodes ]. Salles et al. (2016) placed them in the genus Potamocloeon as a separate subgenus Aquaediva Salles, Gattolliat & Sartori 2016.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Ephemeroptera

Family

Baetidae

Loc

Potamocloeon Gillies 1990

Kluge, Nikita J. 2019
2019
Loc

Potamocloeon: Salles & Gattolliat & Sartori 2016: 108

Salles, F. F. & Gattolliat, J. - L. & Sartori, M. 2016: 108
2016
Loc

Maliqua

Lugo-Ortiz, C. R. & McCafferty, W. P. 1997: 368
1997
Loc

Potamocloeon

Gillies, M. T. 1990: 207
1990
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