Inventory of teloganodid mayflies (Ephemeroptera: Teloganodidae) from southern India with records of endemic taxa

Authors

  • C. Selvakumar Department of Zoology, The Madura College (Autonomous), Vidhya Nagar, Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625011, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4296-5682
  • K. G. Sivaramakrishnan Flat 3, Gokulam Apartments, No. 7, Gokulam Colony, West Mambalam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600033, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6332-0349
  • T. Kubendran High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Saproon, Solan, Himachal Pradesh 173211, India http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2117-9938
  • Kailash Chandra Zoological Survey of India, Prani Vigyan Bhawan, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700053, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9076-5442

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3834.10.6.11800-11805

Keywords:

Eastern Ghats, endemic taxa, identification, larval key, Western Ghats.

Abstract

The present study deals with diagnostic characters, diversity, distribution and status of seven species belonging to four genera of Teloganodidae from southern India.  Six of them are endemic to the Western Ghats as is the genus Indoganodes Selvakumar, Sivaramakrishnan & Jacobus, 2014 and one is endemic to the Eastern Ghats.  Due to this high percentage of endemism, conservation of habitats and microhabitats harbouring this ancient gondwanan lineage gains priority.  A larval key to the known genera and species of Teloganodidae of southern India is also provided.  The present pattern of distribution of the family Teloganodidae is confined to southern Africa, Madagascar, southern India and Southeast Asia.

 

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26-05-2018

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Vol. 10 No. 6 (2018)

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