TY - JOUR
T1 - Morphological description of four species belonging to the genus Nigrobaetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from Japan
AU - Fujitani, Toshihito
AU - Kobayashi, Norio
AU - Hirowatari, Toshiya
AU - Tanida, Kazumi
N1 - Funding Information:
We sincerely thank Professor M. Ishii and Dr. N. Hirai, Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University for their useful comments on this study. We are very indebted to Dr. Y. Takemon, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, for helping us to communicate with the late Dr. K. Gose, Gojo City, Japan. We are also grateful to the late Dr. K. Gose for giving us information on the locality of baetid species which he described. We express our gratitude to Dr. J. T. Yang and Dr. M. M. Yang, National Chung Hsien University, Taiwan, for the loan of the paratypes of Taiwanese baetid species. We extend our thanks to Dr. Shin-ichi Ishiwata, Kanagawa Institute of Technology, and Mr. N. Shimura for taking SEM images of eggs of baetid species. This study was partly supported by funds to T. Fujitani from the Ecology and Civil Engineering Society, Japan (No. 2); to K. Tanida from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (No. 08874106) and from the River Foundation, Japan (Taxonomic Studies on Freshwater Animals. Integration of Systematic and Ecological Data on Trichoptera and Other Aquatic Insects, 1994).
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© 2017, The Japanese Society of Limnology.
PY - 2017/8/1
Y1 - 2017/8/1
N2 - We associated imagoes and nymphs of four Nigrobaetis species from Japan and described their morphological characters. We found that N. sp. P comprised two Nigrobaetis species in Kanto Plain and in Ishigaki Island, which we described as N. apterus Fujitani n. sp. and N. ishigakiensis Fujitani n. sp., respectively. We also described N. sp. I as N. latus Fujitani n. sp. We recorded N. acinaciger (Kluge), the nymph of which had been confused with N. chocoratus (Gose), from Japan for the first time. We provide identification keys for eight Nigrobaetis species of Japan.
AB - We associated imagoes and nymphs of four Nigrobaetis species from Japan and described their morphological characters. We found that N. sp. P comprised two Nigrobaetis species in Kanto Plain and in Ishigaki Island, which we described as N. apterus Fujitani n. sp. and N. ishigakiensis Fujitani n. sp., respectively. We also described N. sp. I as N. latus Fujitani n. sp. We recorded N. acinaciger (Kluge), the nymph of which had been confused with N. chocoratus (Gose), from Japan for the first time. We provide identification keys for eight Nigrobaetis species of Japan.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10201-016-0509-4
DO - 10.1007/s10201-016-0509-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010966174
SN - 1439-8621
VL - 18
SP - 315
EP - 331
JO - Limnology
JF - Limnology
IS - 3
ER -