Contribution to the knowledge of Tenuibaetis Kang &amp; Yang 1994, Nigrobaetis Novikova &amp; Kluge 1987 and Labiobaetis Novikova &amp; Kluge 1987 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from the Western Ghats (India)

T. KUBENDRAN; C. BALASUBRAMANIAN; C. SELVAKUMAR; J. L. GATTOLLIAT; K. G. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.3

Issue: Vol. 3957 No. 2: 14 May 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-05-14

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.3

Page range: 188–200

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**Contribution to the knowledge of Tenuibaetis Kang & Yang 1994, Nigrobaetis Novikova & Kluge 1987 and Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge 1987 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from the Western Ghats (India)**

T. KUBENDRAN⁺⁻
C. BALASUBRAMANIAN⁺⁻
C. SELVAKUMAR⁺⁻
J. L. GATTOLLIAT⁺⁻
K. G. SIVARAMAKRISHNAN⁺⁻

Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai-625 009, Tamil Nadu, India.

Department of Zoology, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India.

Museum of Zoology, Place de la Riponne 6, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram East, Chennai-600 059, India.

new species new combination Ephemeroptera Tenuibaetis frequentus Nigrobaetis paramakalyani Labiobaetis jacobusi Western Ghats India

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Abstract

As part of ongoing exploration of the mayflies of hill streams of southern Western Ghats, we describe two new species: Nigrobaetis paramakalyani Kubendran & Balasubramanian n. sp. and Labiobaetis jacobusi Kubendran & Balasubramanian n. sp. The genus Nigrobaetis is reported for the first time from India. Tenuibaetis frequentus (Müller-Liebenau & Hubbard 1985) n. comb. was also collected in this area and we provide the first description of this species at the imaginal stage. Brief ecological notes of the three species are added.