Tanzaniops, replacement name for certain African Baetidae (Ephemeroptera)
- Authors: McCafferty, W P , Barber-James, Helen M
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7009 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008387
- Description: The name Tanzaniella, proposed for an African baetid mayfly by Gillies (1991) was preoccupied. The name Tanzaniops is provided as a replacement for this homonym.
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- Date Issued: 2005
A non-paraphyletic classification of the afrotropical genus Acanthiops Waltz & McCafferty (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)
- Authors: Lugo-Ortiz, C R , Barber-James, Helen M , McCafferty, W P , de Moor, Ferdy C
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7006 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008384
- Description: Acanthiops Waltz & McCafferty (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) is shown to be a monophyletic grouping defined by an anteromedially emarginate and laterally expanded and flattened pronotum in the larva. Attempts to restrict the concept of Acanthiops to Ac. marlieri (Demoulin) and re-erect Afroptiloides Gillies, syn. n., for Ac. elgonensis Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, Ac. griffithsi Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, Ac. tsitsa Barber-James & McCafferty, Ac. variegatus (Gillies), Ac. varius (Crass) and Ac. zomba Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, are shown to be based on inconsistent and inadequate morphological features that result in a paraphyletic taxonomy. The unofficial separate treatment of Ac. cooperi (Gillies & Wuillot) and Ac. erepens (Gillies) under Platycloeon Gillies & Wuillot is also shown to be paraphyletic. Acanthiops faro Barber-James & McCafferty, sp. n., is described from larvae from Guinea, and is distinguished by the combination of a papillate projection on labial palp segment 2, small tubercles on terga 1-8 and abdominal colour pattern. Acanthiops io Lugo-Ortiz & McCafferty, sp. n., is described from larvae from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and is distinguished by the combination of a papillate projection on palp segment 2, elongate tubercles on terga 1-9 and abdominal colour pattern. The larva of Ac. erepens (Gillies) is redescribed to incorporate morphological features and variability previously not accounted for, and larvae originally assigned to Baetis cataractae Crass are shown to be equivalent to Ac. erepens. New locality data or emendations on locality data are provided for Ac. griffithsi, Ac. tsitsa Barber-James & McCafferty and Ac. varius (Crass).
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- Date Issued: 2001
Lectotype designation and a new synonym of Cloeodes inzingae (Crass, 1947)(Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)
- Authors: de Moor, Ferdy C , McCafferty, W P
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452143 , vital:75107 , https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA10213589_209
- Description: The description of Pseudocloeon inzingae Crass, 1947, was based on nymphs and reared adults collected from several rivers in KwaZulu-Natal in 1944 and 1945. The species was redescribed by Waltz and McCafferty (1994) and transferred to Cloeodes Traver, a genus previously known only from the Neotropical Region and southeast Asia. Pseudocloeon saxophilum Agnew, 1961, from the Western Cape Province of South Africa was also transferred to Cloeodes by Waltz and McCafferty (1994), and both species were listed under this genus in the recent checklist of South African Ephemeroptera by McCafferty and de Moor (1995). We have studied nymphs and adults of C. inzingae in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, which clearly represent at least part of the original rnaterial studied by Crass, and may thus be considered syntypes.
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- Date Issued: 1996