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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF98489AAEA95F6CFF67" bold="true" box="[151,561,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">Choroterpes (Choroterpes) petersi</emphasis>
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, Tamil Nadu, Tirunelveli, Nambiyar river, Nambikovil,
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, Colls. C. Selvakumar and K. G. Sivaramakrishnan; 1 larva,
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, Kerala, Silent Valley-Kunthi river at Attappadi,
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, Coll. C. Selvakumar.
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The genus
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Eaton
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is widely distributed, occurring in the Ethiopian, Oriental, Palearctic, Nearctic and Neotropical regions (
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;
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). Of the 5 subgenera mentioned above, 23 species are described from the subgenus
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF9849ECAF885F31FE18" box="[481,620,438,462]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">Choroterpes</emphasis>
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of which 7 are from Palearctic, 4 from each from Nearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical and Oriental realms.
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF9848CAAFC15DBDFDC0" box="[199,224,511,534]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">C.</emphasis>
(
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)
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was originally described from
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based on reared larvae and adults in the laboratory (
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). Present new record of the larvae
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF984BD9AC1D5EB3FDEC" box="[980,1006,547,570]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">C.</emphasis>
(
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from southern Western Ghats is extension of its distributional range down south to 811° north of equator. It can be identified by the following distinct characters: (i) labrum with three transverse rows of setae on dorsal surface, middle row without setae medially; anteromedian margin of labrum with a deep U-shaped ventral incision (
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); (ii) gill 1 slender with dorsal and ventral portions (
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) and (iii) median projection of gills 27 plate-like and markedly larger and longer than laterals (
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).
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF98489AA8CB5C09F8DD" bold="true" box="[151,340,1781,1804]" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">FIGURES 1518.</emphasis>
Larva of
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Tong &amp; Dudgeon, 2003
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15, Dorsal view; 16, Labrum; 17, Gill 1; 18, Gill 4.
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF9848CAA9695C3DF8A6" bold="true" box="[199,352,1879,1904]" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(Western Ghats) and
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(
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B620FF9848CAA9455C66F842" bold="true" box="[199,315,1915,1940]" pageId="3" pageNumber="287">Remarks.</emphasis>
ODonnell and Jackusch (2008) have traced the phylogenetic relationships of leptophlebiid mayflies as inferred by histone H3and 28S ribosomal DNA, in which the
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was rendered paraphyletic and 4 groups of atalophlebiine taxa were recorded with moderate to strong branch support. Of the 4 above mentioned groups, they have established a group called
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group by uniting fauna from North
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and Southeast Asia and
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. The subgeneric relationships within the genus
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<emphasis id="B1C19770B627FF9F4CB3AE825814FF02" box="[1214,1353,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="288">Choroterpes</emphasis>
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can be fine-tuned if future molecular phylogenetic studies encompass all the subgenera established so far from all over the world.
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