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A new species of Caenis Stephens, 1835 (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae) from Madurai, India
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- 1. Department of Zoology, Fatima College (affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Madurai-625018, India
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Kiruthiga, Mahendran, Sivaruban, T., Jeyapriya, Velmurugan, Barathy, S., Isack, Rajasekaran (2026): A new species of Caenis Stephens, 1835 (Ephemeroptera: Caenidae) from Madurai, India. Zootaxa 5782 (1): 183-192, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.1.11, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.20736
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- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/314893
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- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BB134D5E-8103-4F39-AB31-D782CAAAAA3C
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