The Tribe Hyrtanellini Allen, 1980 (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) of Western and Central Asia with Description of a New Species

Alexander V Martynov; Dmitry M Palatov; Roman J Godunko

doi:10.3390/insects14010087

The Tribe Hyrtanellini Allen, 1980 (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) of Western and Central Asia with Description of a New Species

Insects. 2023 Jan 13;14(1):87. doi: 10.3390/insects14010087.

Authors

Alexander V Martynov¹, Dmitry M Palatov², Roman J Godunko^{3

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Affiliations

¹ National Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytsky Str., 01601 Kyiv, Ukraine.
² Independent Researcher, 79000 Lviv, Ukraine.
³ Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
⁴ Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90237 Łódź, Poland.

Abstract

A new species, Serratella leonidi Martynov & Palatov, sp. nov., is described from Tajikistan based on immature stage. Based on larval material from Iran including the topotypes, Serratella elissa Jacobus, Zhou & McCafferty, 2009 is complementary described, and its generic placement is clarified. The delimitation of three genera that are members of the tribe Hyrtanellini Allen, 1980, namely Serratella Edmunds, 1959, Torleya Lestage, 1917 and Quatica Jacobus & McCafferty, 2008 is briefly discussed. The phylogenetic reconstruction of Hyrtanellini based on the COI gene showed the relations of representatives of these genera on the one hand, and distinct delimitation of Serratella leonidi sp. nov. and S. elissa on the other. A list of species from Western and Central Asia attributed to Hyrtanellini, their currently known distribution and a key for the determination of the larvae are proposed.

Keywords: COI; Iran; Tajikistan; distribution; key; larva; spiny crawler mayflies; type locality; variation.

Grants and funding

This study was funded by open access funding enabled and organized by the University of Łodź (Poland). The work of A.V.M. was partially supported by the SIU (Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education) grant CPEA-LT-2016/10140 to Vladimir Gusarov (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo). R.J.G. acknowledges the institutional support of the Institute of Entomology (Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences) RVO: 60077344. This research contains some materials collected by R.J.G. within a grant from the Czech Science Foundation (Project No. 206/08/1389).