Two new species of Afronurus Lestage, 1924, from Hong Kong, China (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)
Author
Braasch, Dietrich
Author
Jacobus, Luke M.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3062
64
68
journal article
46154
10.5281/zenodo.204645
afb0ec39-01fa-433c-a38c-76acdc0aedf8
1175-5326
204645
Afronurus
spp.
Other samples that we have seen from
Hong Kong
contain Afronurini larvae that have posterior gill lamellae with elongations at their tips, as attributed to the
assamensis
group, above. Some of these larvae might correspond to one of our new species, but we cannot confidently associate them with any species at this time.
Notably, one of these larval morphotypes is highly distinctive, because it has conspicuous lateral projections on the posterior abdominal segments (e.g., Tai Nam Wo, Kowloon,
8/II/1967
, P.T.P. Tsui, P., N.&M. Hsu [PERC]), such as mentioned by
Webb & McCafferty (2008b)
. Other
Hong Kong
Afronurus
larvae do not have these pronounced projections.