Gripopteryx elisae Illies 1964

Abstract

Gripopteryx elisae Illies, 1964 Gripopteryx elisae Illies, 1964, p. 49. Gripopteryx elisae — Illies, 1966, p. 30. Gripopteryx elisae — Froehlich, 1969, p. 19. Gripopteryx elisae — Froehlich, 2010, p 132. Diagnostic characters. General color brown, extremities and the last two abdominal segments yellowish, length of forewing 10.5 mm; tergum 10 rectangular in dorsal view; paraprocts long, sickle-shaped, compressed, with rounded apex (Illies 1964); nymph with spines on abdominal terga 1 to 9. Remarks. The description of G. elisae was based on a newly emerged specimen, which makes it difficult to evaluate the final state of some characters. Gripopteryx elisae has elongate paraprocts that extend above the margin of tergum 10 and a short epiproct. The type was not seen, but Dr. Peter Zwick provided images of the wings, the original illustrations, and clarified some doubts about the morphology of the specimen.Published as part of Lecci, Lucas Silveira & Froehlich, Claudio Gilberto, 2011, Taxonomic revision of Gripopteryx (Pictet, 1841) (Plecoptera: Gripopterygidae), pp. 1-21 in Zootaxa 2792 on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27697