Caenis cubensis, a new species of mayflies from Cuba (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae)

Abstract

All life stages of Caenis cubensis sp. n. are described. This new species of Caenis from Cuba is closely related to the species of the South American C. argentina and C. pflugfelderi groups.

Keywords:

• Ephemeroptera
• mayflies
• Caenis cubensis
• new species
• Cuba
• Neotropical region

Acknowledgements

We wish to express our special thanks to Carlos Molineri (Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina), Javier Alba-Trecedor (Universidad de Granada, España) and Frederico Falcão Salles (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil), for the revision of the manuscript, their accurate suggestions and provision of valuable literature. We also thank Pat McCafferty (Purdue University, USA) and Michel Sartori (Musée Cantonal de Zoologie, Lausanne) for helping with important related literature. We thank Pedro López (BIOECO, Santiago de Cuba) and Orestes Bello (CITMA, Camagüey) for leaving us material for this investigation. We also thank Nilia Cuellar and Dania Rosabal, Universidad de Oriente for their invaluable help in the translation of the manuscript, Maikel Cañizares (IES, La Habana, Cuba) for supplying the revision of the personal collection of the remarkable Cuban naturalist Pastor Alayo, deposited in this institution. The work was supported by Russian federal program “Leading Scientific Schools”, Project No. 7130.2006 – 4.