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Abstract
As the first taxonomic and faunistic report of Nanomis Lugo-Ortiz and McCafferty, 1999 for Venezuela, we describe a new species, N. rasmusseni sp. n., based on material from Andean streams. Comparisons of the nymphal and imaginal stages of N. rasmusseni with those of N. galera Lugo-Ortiz and McCafferty, 1999 – the only species currently known for this genus – are done in detail. Further, additional morphological characters are discussed to delineate the genus from the other baetid genera. Likewise, ecological data and distribution of N. rasmusseni in the Andean highlands of Venezuela are provided, which improves knowledge of the richness and distribution of the genus in South America.
http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C9DF3936-101F-4240-B067-AC5DF394C805
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank Andrew K. Rasmussen, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, for his invaluable assistance in photomicroscopy and scanning images of examined material. We are deeply grateful to Ingrit Correa and Santiago Puentes, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela, for helping in the collecting and rearing of specimens of Nanomis rasmusseni. Special thanks to Janice Peters, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, for the loan of some nymphal specimens of N. galera. We deeply appreciate the efforts of the Editor (Helena Shaverdo) and Reviewers (Wills Flowers and Federico Salles) for thoroughly reviewing the manuscript and contribute to improve the content of this article. The research space and equipment provided by the the Center for Water and Air Quality, College of Engineering Sciences Technology and Agriculture, to the senior author during her sabbatical at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, is deeply appreciated. This research was supported by the Consejo de Desarrollo Científico Humanístico y Tecnológico de la Universidad de Los Andes (Code CVI-ADG-C-21-95-01), the Oficina de Intercambio Científico de la Universidad de Los Andes, and the Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (FONACIT) de Venezuela.