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Issue: Vol. 45 No. 2: January to February 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-09
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.45.2.2
Page range: 41-51
Abstract views: 121
PDF downloaded: 95

The morphology of the Chinese Mayfly Ephoron nanchangi (Hsu, 1936) (Ephemeroptera: Polymitarcyidae)

College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
burrowing Mayfly mandibular tusks taxonomy biology China

Abstract

The Chinese polymitarcyid mayfly Ephoron nanchangi (Hsu, 1936) was originally named upon females, which were lost. The exact morphology has not been presented until now. The newly collected materials of this species, which include nymphs, female subimagos and male imagos, show it is a valid species with unique morphology, distinguishable from congeners by its short and strong nymphal mandibular tusks, long distance between forks of Rs and MA in imaginal forewings.

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