Heptageniidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) of Thailand
Author
Boonsoong, Boonsatien
Author
Braasch, Dietrich
text
ZooKeys
2013
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61
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.272.3638
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.272.3638
1313-2970-272-61
Genus
Afronurus Lestage, 1924
Figs 3A4
D-G8C-D
9A
Remarks.
The synonymization of
Cinygmina
with
Afronurus
is recognized by
Wang and McCafferty (2004)
,
Kluge (2004)
, and
Braasch and Freitag (2008)
. The genus
Afronurus
includes at least 43 species from the Oriental region (
Braasch 1987
,
1990
,
2005
,
2011
;
Braasch and Boonsoong 2010
,
Braasch and
Soldan
1984a
,
1987
,
Flowers and Pescador 1984
,
Braasch and Jacobus 2011
,
Kang and Yang 1994
,
Kimmins 1937
,
Nguyen and Bae 2003
,
Venkataraman and Sivaramakrishnan 1989
,
Zhou and Zheng 2003
). It indicates the complicated situation in determining species of
Afronurus
in the Oriental; in Southeast Asia many species are known only by larvae, or described as adults with affiliation of larvae from the same locality; the rearing of
species
and genetic investigations will be the aim of a future research.
Afronurus
larvae are usually the dominant heptageniid benthic macro-invertebrates in Thai streams. In this study, we propose five described species of the genus
Cinygmina
Kimmins, 1937 =
Afronurus
Lestage, 1924.