TY - JOUR
T1 - Three species of a genus Tenuibaetis (Ephemeroptera
T2 - Baetidae) from Japan, with description of a new species
AU - Fujitani, Toshihito
AU - Kobayashi, Norio
AU - Hirowatari, Toshiya
AU - Tanida, Kazumi
N1 - Funding Information:
We sincerely thank Professor M. Ishii and Mr. 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 Dr. K. Gose, Gojo City, Japan. We are also grateful to Dr. K. Gose, for giving us information on the locality of the baetid species that he described. We thank Dr. Ayuko Ohkawa, University Forest in Hokkaido, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, the University of Tokyo, and Ms. Yoko Fujimaru, Hokuriku Institute of Public Health, for donating us samples of Baetidae. We express our gratitude to Dr. J.T. Yang, National Chung Hsien University, Taiwan, for the loan of the paratypes of the Taiwanese baetid species. We are thankful to Emeritus Professor M. Nagoshi and Professor T. Oishi, Faculty of Science, Nara Women′s University, for permitting us to use the Higashi-Yoshino Field Station. We extend our thanks to the staff of Ashiu Forest Research Station, Field Science Education and Research Center, Kyoto University, and the Yona Field of the Subtropical Field Science Center, University of the Ryukyus, for permitting us to use the facilities and the forest. 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).
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - We associated nymphs of three Tenuibaetis species with their imagoes by rearing. Herein we redescribe T. flexifemora and T. pseudofrequentus, and also provide description of a new species T. parvipterus. Tenuibaetis pseudofrequentus is morphologically similar to T. flexifemora in the imaginal stage, but we can distinguish these two species by the color patterns of their nymphs and their geographical distribution. Tenuibaetis parvipterus is distinguishable from the other two species by the fore femur, which is not bending distinctly, and abdominal sterna without distinct spots of male imago, reduced hind wing and abdominal sterna without distinct spots of female imago, and difference in color patterns of the abdomen of nymphs. Diagnostic characters of these species were tabulated.
AB - We associated nymphs of three Tenuibaetis species with their imagoes by rearing. Herein we redescribe T. flexifemora and T. pseudofrequentus, and also provide description of a new species T. parvipterus. Tenuibaetis pseudofrequentus is morphologically similar to T. flexifemora in the imaginal stage, but we can distinguish these two species by the color patterns of their nymphs and their geographical distribution. Tenuibaetis parvipterus is distinguishable from the other two species by the fore femur, which is not bending distinctly, and abdominal sterna without distinct spots of male imago, reduced hind wing and abdominal sterna without distinct spots of female imago, and difference in color patterns of the abdomen of nymphs. Diagnostic characters of these species were tabulated.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10201-010-0342-0
DO - 10.1007/s10201-010-0342-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80255127370
VL - 12
SP - 213
EP - 223
JO - Limnology
JF - Limnology
SN - 1439-8621
IS - 3
ER -