Cernotina spinigera Flint, 1971

Barcelos, Patrik, Camargos, Lucas Marques De, Pes, Ana Maria & Salles, Frederico Falcão, 2013, Six new species of Cernotina Ross, 1938 (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae) from Brazil, Zootaxa 3669 (2), pp. 115-128 : 127

Cernotina spinigera Flint, 1971

Cernotina spinigera Flint 1971 , 38 [original designation]; Angrisano 1994: 137 [distribution]; Sykora 1998, 102 [distribution and male illustration].

Record. This species was described from the Amazon River basin, in northern Brazil, and recorded from Uruguay. This is the first record of C. spinigera from Goiás State, Brazil.

Material. BRAZIL: Goiás; Niquelândia; Fazenda Horto Aranha, Anglo American/Codemin; 14°24’8.28”S, 48°43’40.19”W; 15-16.ix.2012; L.M. de Camargos, M.C. Almeida and C.E.K. de Oliveira; Penssylvania; 6 males [alcohol] (INPA).

Acknowledgements

We are grateful for the collaboration of Dr. Neusa Hamada, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, and Dr. Edivani V. Franceschinelli (and her student Carlos de Melo), Universidade Federal de Goiás, for laboratory infrastructure to analyze the material. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers and Dr. John Morse, for the corrections and suggestions which considerably improved this manuscript. The project Taxonomy and Biology of Trichoptera (Insecta) in Central Amazônia (CNPq processo: 558776/2008-6), the Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Espírito Santo (FAPES) (Process511187434/2010), the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for a fellowship to FFS and the Programa de Ecologia de Longa Duração - PELD (Bacia do Rio São Mateus) (process number 558246/2009–5) for financial assistance. We thank the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) (Process number 11239–1, 16719–1, 12777–1) for permission to collect in Espírito Santo State. We also thank Dr. Paulo de Marco Júnior and Anglo American mining company for support and funding.