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Electrogena gibedede Godunko & Sroka 2012

  • 1. Department of biology, Faculty of science, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran & moazen. mina 70 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2804 - 9036
  • 2. Department of biology, Faculty of science, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran & A. keikhosravi @ hsu. ac. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2165 - 9712
  • 3. Department of biology, Faculty of science, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar, Iran & e. rastegar @ hsu. ac; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9639 - 2058

Description

Electrogena gibedede Godunko & Sroka, 2012

This species was first described from Western Caucasus Mts., Russian Federation (Sroka & Godunko 2012). We have found the species in Mazandaran Province, and it is the first record for Iran.

Examined material: 10 larvae from Mazandaran Province, Abbasabad, Behshahr county (N36°39’42”; E53°35’49”), 22.iv.2018, Keikhosravi, A. leg.

Electrogena gibedede can be distinguished from other species by using the following characters: (i) shape of gill I with subparallel margins for most of the gill length (Fig. 4a); (ii) shape of gill VII, gradually narrowing towards apex (Fig. 4b); (iii) joint between pronotum and mesonotum smooth, without abrupt step (Fig. 4c); (iv) unique shape of bristles on upper surface of fore femora, widened towards the apex and rounded (Fig. 4d); (v) presence of two teeth on the tarsal claws; (vi) shape of paraglossae, rounded laterally (Fig. 4e); (vii) setation of superlinguae with long hairs on the tips.

Notes

Published as part of Moazzen, Mina, Keikhosravi, Alireza & Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar, 2021, Description of Electrogena sartorii sp. nov., a new representative of the genus Electrogena Zurwerra & Tomka, 1985 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae), from Iran using molecular and morphological data, pp. 555-566 in Zootaxa 5026 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/5300808

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2018-04-22
Family
Heptageniidae
Genus
Electrogena
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ephemeroptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Godunko & Sroka
Species
gibedede
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2018-04-22
Taxonomic concept label
Electrogena gibedede Godunko, 2012 sec. Moazzen, Keikhosravi & Rastegar-Pouyani, 2021

References

  • Sroka, P. & Godunko, R. J. (2012) Mayflies of the Caucasus Mountains. I. A new species of the genus Electrogena Zurwerra & Tomka, 1985. Zootaxa, 3222 (1), 28 - 45. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3222.1.2