An integrative approach to the study of Kempnyia Klapalek, 1914 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Brazil: Support for the description of four new species and a basis for future studies.

ABSTRACT: Kempnyia (Plecoptera: Perlidae) is an endemic genus of Brazilian stoneflies that has 36 valid species and is distributed primarily in the Atlantic Forest and the mountainous areas of Central Brazil, particularly in Goiás and Tocantins states. Despite being the Brazilian genus with the most DNA sequences available on GenBank, integrative studies on the genus began only recently, in 2014. In this context, herein we studied the morphology and molecular data of Kempnyia specimens deposited in the Aquatic Biology Laboratory (UNESP, Assis) and the Entomology Museum of the Federal University of Viçosa (UFVB, Viçosa) collections. For the integrative approach adopted, in addition to studying the specimens morphologically, we used sequences of the COI mitochondrial gene combined with the following s

SUBMITTER: de Almeida LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11253944 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature