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Issue: Vol. 4347 No. 1: 10 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.1.2
Page range: 31–55
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Revision of Ephemerythus Gillies 1960 (Ephemeroptera: Tricorythidae)

Department of Entomology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
Department of Applied Ecology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7/9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Ephemeroptera mayflies Tricorythidae Ephemerythus systematics Africa Tanzania Zambia Uganda Cameroon

Abstract

Four species of Ephemerythus Gillies 1960 are described here. Larvae, subimagoes, imagoes of both sexes and eggs of Ephemerythus niger Gillies 1960 (= E. niger ugandanus Kluge 2010 syn. n.) and Ephemerythus pictus Gillies 1960 (= E. kiboensis Gillies 1960 syn. n.) are redescribed based on reared material from their type localities (Amani in Usambara Mountains and Marangu in Kilimandjaro respectively) and from other places in Tanzania. Larvae, subimagoes, imagoes of both sexes and eggs of a new species Ephemerythus nigricolor sp. n. are described based on reared material from Zambia. The species formerly reported as «Ephemerythus sp. C» (Kluge 2010a) is described here as Ephemerythus gilliesi sp. n., based on one larva with eggs, collected by M.T. Gillies in Cameroon.

 

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