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Issue: Vol. 421 No. 1: 3 Feb. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-02-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.421.1.1
Page range: 1–4
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 23

A new species of genus Gilliesia Peters & Edmunds from China (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)

Institute of Genetic Resources, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097, P. R. China
Ephemeroptera Gilliesia Leptophlebiidae China Gilliesia pulchra new species

Abstract

Gilliesia pulchra n. sp., the second known species of the genus Gilliesia Peters and Edmunds, is described from male and female imagos collected in Southwestern China. The new species represents a new generic record for this country and extends the known distribution of the genus east across the Himalayan Mountains.

References

  1. Gillies, M.T. (1951) Further notes on Ephemeroptera from India and South East Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (B), 20, 121–130.

    Peters, W.L, & Edmunds, G.F., Jr. (1970) Revision of the generic classification of the Eastern Hemisphere Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera). Pacific Insects, 12, 157–240.