Indobaetis starmuehlneri Müller-Liebenau & Morihara 1982

Kluge, Nikita J. & Novikova, Eugenia A., 2014, Systematics of Indobaetis Müller-Liebenau & Morihara 1982, and related implications for some other Baetidae genera (Ephemeroptera), Zootaxa 3835 (2), pp. 209-236 : 222-223

Indobaetis starmuehlneri Müller-Liebenau & Morihara 1982

( Fig. 40 )

Material. SRI LANKA: Uva province., Badulla district, Lemastota Oya, 20–21.I.2011, coll. N. Kluge & L. Sheyko: 1 larva.

Larval characters. Head narrower than in I. costai , frons between antennae bases forms a keel; arms of frontal suture shallowly arched ( Fig. 40 ). 2nd segment of labial palp retains muscle which moves 3rd segment. Pronotum with length less than ½ width (as in Fig. 43 ). Patella-tibial suture developed on all legs (as in Fig. 22 ). Caudalii with well-developed primary swimming setae on lateral sides of paracercus and median sides of cerci. Other characters as described by Müller-Liebenau & Morihara (1982).

Subimago, imago and eggs. Unknown.

Distribution. Sri Lanka.

Figures

FIGURES 40 – 45. Indobaetis spp., larvae. 40, I. starmuehlneri, head; 41 – 44, I. costai: 41, head; 42, claw of left leg, ventral view; 43, exuviae of right half of pronotum and mesonotum; 44, exuviae of frons. 45, I. microfolius sp. n., the same.

FIGURES 18 – 22. Indobaetis costai. 18, subimaginal exuviae of left half of mesonotum; 19, subimaginal exuviae of left subalar sclerite, postsubalar sclerite and lateropostnotal crest; 20, abdominal segments I – VI of male imago, spread on slide; 21, genitals of male imago (intersegmental ventral muscles taken away and unpaired sterno-styligeral muscle visible though integument); 22, part of larval fore leg.