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TABLE 1 in Redescriptions of Choroterpes nigrescens Barnard 1932 and Ch. ndebele Agnew 1962 with notes about egg structure of Choroterpes Eaton 1881, Megaglena Peters & Edmunds 1970 and Klugephlebia Selvakumar et al. 2016 (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae)

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  • 1. Department of Entomology, Saint Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab., 7 / 9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia

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TABLE 1. Species of Choroterpes with known egg structure. Species with egg structure different from « Choroterpes - type», are marked by bold (see text).

SpeciesEgg description
Ch. (Afrochoroterpes) nigrescens Barnard 1932Figs 84–89
Ch. (Afrochoroterpes) ndebele Agnew 1962Figs 90–98
Choroterpes (s.str.) basalis (Banks 1900)Morgan 1913: fig. 63
Choroterpes (s.str.) borbonica Belfiore 1988Belfiore 1988: fig. 7
Choroterpes (s.str.) lesbosensis Gaino & Sowa 1985Gaino & Sowa 1985: pl. IIa‒b
Choroterpes (s.str.) mercatorius Kluge 2012Figs 105–108; Kluge 2012: fig. 56
Choroterpes (s.str.) picteti picteti (Eaton 1871)Gaino & Sowa 1985: pl. IIc‒d; Gaino & Puig 1996: fig. 3E, Haybach 2003: Abb. 1, Kluge 2012: fig. 20 (Fig. 99)
Choroterpes (s.str.) picteti subcostalis Kluge 2012Kluge 2012: figs 21–23 (Fig. 100)
Choroterpes (s.str.) prati Puig & Gaino 1996Puig & Gaino 1996: figs 23–24
Choroterpes (s.str.) salamannai Gaino & Puig 1996Gaino & Puig 1996: figs 3A–B
Choroterpes (s.str.) sp. (Panama)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Neochoroterpes) mexicanus Allen 1974McClure & Stewart 1976: fig. 1
Ch. (Euthraulus) alagarensis Dinakaran et al. 2009Kluge et al. 2022: figs 60–61
Ch. (Euthraulus) altioculus Kluge 1984Kluge 2012: figs 70–73
Ch. (Euthraulus) angustifolius Kluge et al. 2022Kluge et al. 2022: figs 389–391
Ch. (Euthraulus) arabica Sartori & Gillies 1990Sartori & Gillies 1990: figs 22, 24
Ch. (Euthraulus) armillatus Kluge et al. 2022Kluge et al. 2022: figs 109–110
Ch. (Euthraulus) assimilis Gaino & Sowa 1985Gaino & Sowa 1985: p. 14
Ch. (Euthraulus) bugandensis (Kimmins 1956)Sartori & Gillies 1990: figs 23, 25
Ch. (Euthraulus) caucasicus Kluge 2012Kluge 2012: figs 96–97
Ch. (Euthraulus) curtus (Kimmins 1956)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) latus Kluge et al. 2022Kluge et al. 2022: figs 156–163
Ch. (Euthraulus) magnaculeata Kopelke 1980Kopelke 1980: figs 24–25
Ch. (Euthraulus) nambiyarensis Selva-Kumar & Sivaramakrishnan 2013Kluge et al. 2022: fig. 339
Ch. (Euthraulus) nandini Selvakumar & Sivaramakrishnan (in Selvakumar et al.) 2015Kluge et al. 2022: figs 424–245
Ch. (Euthraulus) ortali Sartori 1992Sartori 1992: fig. 42
Ch. (Euthraulus) pacis Sartori 1991Gattoliat & Sartori 2008: figs 20–21
Ch. (Euthraulus) signatus (Hagen 1858)Kluge 2012: p. 294
Ch. (Euthraulus) sumbarensis Kluge 1984Kluge 2012: figs 74–75
Ch. (Euthraulus) taiwanensis Kang & Yang 1994Kang & Yang 1994: fig. 11
Ch. (Euthraulus) tropicalis (Gillies 1957)Gillies 1957: p. 45
Ch. (Euthraulus) unicolor Kluge et al. 2022Kluge et al. 2022: fig. 270
Ch. (Euthraulus) usambarae (Gillies 1957)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) sp. nov. (Tanzania: Matema)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) sp. nov. (Tanzania: Mfunbi)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) sp. nov. (Tanzania: Mgeta)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) sp. nov. (Thailand: Pai)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Euthraulus) sp. nov. (Thailand: Mae Sae)Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Cryptopenella) anhuensis Wu & You 1992Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Cryptopenella) tumebasalis Zhou 2006Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Dilatognathus) bogori Kluge 2014Kluge 2014: figs 39–43
Ch. (Dilatognathus) cataractae Kluge 2012Kluge 2012: p. 303
Ch. (Dilatognathus) minor Dang 1967Kluge, in litt.
Ch. (Dilatognathus) nigella (Kang & Yang 1994)Kang & Yang 1994: fig. 12

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Published as part of Kluge, Nikita J., 2025, Redescriptions of Choroterpes nigrescens Barnard 1932 and Ch. ndebele Agnew 1962 with notes about egg structure of Choroterpes Eaton 1881, Megaglena Peters & Edmunds 1970 and Klugephlebia Selvakumar et al. 2016 (Ephemeroptera, Leptophlebiidae), pp. 219-220 in Zootaxa 5711 (2) on page 219, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17883329

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