Potamoperla myrmidon Mabille 1891
Creators: name: Murányi, Dávid
name: Gamboa, Maribet
name: Vera, Alejandro
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Gripopterygidae
Potamoperla
Potamoperla myrmidon

description: Potamoperla myrmidon (Mabille, 1891)
(Figs. 3–5)
Perla infuscata Blanchard, 1851 (partim)— Blanchard 1851: 100. (original description of the adult, partim).
Perla myrmidon Mabille, 1891 — Mabille 1891: 6. (original description of the adult).
Gripopteryx myrmidon (Mabille, 1891) — Klapálek 1904: 10. (comb. n.); Enderlein 1905: 814. (new record from Chile); Claassen 1940: 31. (catalog).
Potamoperla myrmidon (Mabille, 1891) — Illies 1963: 182. (comb. n., synonymy, redescription of male and female, description of the larva); Illies 1964a: 46. (complementary description of male); Werner 1965: 230. (new records from Chile); Illies 1966: 46. (catalog); Zwick 1972: 99. (new records from Chile); Zwick 1973a: 476. (synonymy); Joost 1976: 205. (new records from Chile); Cekalovic 1976: 149. (checklist); Hallan 2006 (catalog); Vera & Camousseight 2006: 60. (checklist); Vera 2006a: 168. (comparison); McLellan & Zwick 2007: 39. (key); Pessacq & Miserendino 2008: 33. (new record from Argentina); Pessacq 2009: 173. (checklist); Stark et al. 2009: 78, 92. (diagnosis, key); Froehlich 2010: 136. (catalog); DeWalt et al. 2016 (catalog).
Gripopteryx tigrina var. hyalinipennis Enderlein, 1909 — Enderlein 1909: 415. (original description of male); Claassen 1940: 32. (catalog); Illies 1963: 198. (synonym of Claudioperla tigrina (Klapálek, 1904)); Zwick 1973a: 476. (synonym of Potamoperla myrmidon (Mabille, 1891)).
Claudioperla tigrina (Klapálek, 1904) (partim)— Illies 1963: 198. (syn. nov.); Illies 1966: 42. (catalog); Hallan 2006 (catalog).
Gripopteryx michelbacheri Froehlich, 1960 — Froehlich 1960: 10. (original description of male); Illies 1963: 182. (synonym of Potamoperla myrmidon (Mabille, 1891)).
Gripopteryx oncina Froehlich, 1960 — Froehlich 1960: 9. (original description of male and female); Illies 1963: 182. (synonym of Potamoperla myrmidon (Mabille, 1891)).
Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♀: CHILE, Cape Horn archipelago, Orange Bay (NMPC, transferred to alcohol vial) (Labels, kept in box IV.17: Museum Paris / Arch. du Cap Horn / Baie Orange / Hyades & Hahn 1885 (printed); 2886 / 85 (handwritten round label); B. Orange (printed); Type (red, printed); Perla myrmidon / Jules Mabille (Mabille handwritten)); PARALECTOTYPE ♂ of Perla infuscata Blanchard, 1851, present designation: CHILE (NMPC, transferred to alcohol vial) (Labels, kept in box IV.17: Museum Paris / Chili / Gay 15-43 (printed); 15 / 43 (handwritten round label); Type (red, printed); Perla / infuscata / Blanc (Blanchard handwritten)).
Remarks. Illies (1963) assigned this widespread species to Mabille's Perla myrmidon on the basis of wing characters and body proportions described and illustrated in the original description (Mabille 1891). The type specimen found in the NMPC can be treated as holotype (Figs. 3–4), as the original description clearly refers to a single individual. The terminalia characters confirms Illies' assignation (Fig. 5). One of the paralectotype of Perla infuscata belongs to this species.
description: Published as part of Murányi, Dávid, Gamboa, Maribet & Vera, Alejandro, 2016, Lost and found: the Plecoptera types of Blanchard and Mabille, with further contributions to the stoneflies of Chile, pp. 544-560 in Zootaxa 4200 (4) on pages 547-548, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/191677