Afronurus kiangsuensis
Creators: name: Ying, Xiaoli
name: Zhou, Changfa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Heptageniidae
Afronurus
Afronurus kiangsuensis

description: Afronurus kiangsuensis (Puthz, 1971)
Ecdyonurus hyalinus Navás, 1936: 123, fig. 83 (male, female). Types: male, female, Jiangsu (nec Ecdyurus [sic] hyalinus Ulmer, 1912: 369, 372; nec Esben-Petersen 1916: 6). Renamed as Ecdyonurus kiangsuensis by Puthz 1971: 44.
Cinygmina rubromaculata You et al., 1981: 28, pl. 2, figs 14–24 (male, female). Types: male, female, Yixing, Jiangsu province, China. New Synonym.
Cinygmina rubromaculata —Wu et al. 1986: 65, figs 1–11 (nymph).
Cinygmina rubromaculata — Gui 1985: 86; Zhang & Cai 1991: 237; You & Gui 1995: 52, fig. 51 (male); Zhou & Zheng 2003: 758, figs 7, 13, 17 (male and nymph).
Ecdyonurus rubromaculatus — Tshernova et al. 1986: 114.
Cinygmina hainanensis She et al., 1995: 72, fig. 1 (male, female, male subimago). Types: male, female, subimago, Hainan (Synonymized by Zhou & Zheng 2003: 758).
Afronurus rubromaculatus — Braasch & Jacobus 2011: 65; Zhang et al. 2021: 110.
Remarks: The abdominal color pattern of this species is very unique (Fig. 2). Comparison of the drawings of Navás (Fig. 2A) with specimens of C. rubromaculata (Figs. 2B, 2C) shows they are equivalent. The types of them were collected from the same county, Jiangsu province, China. Therefore, we propose the following synonymy: Ecdyonurus kiangsuensis Puthz, 1971 (= Cinygmina rubromaculata You et al., 1981).
Ulmer (1912) named a species Ecdyurus hyalinus from the Chinese Taiwan island which was later transferred to the genus Afronurus by Kang & Yang (1994). Ecdyonurus hyalinus Navás, 1936 is therefore a junior homonym and was renamed by Puthz (1971) as Ecdyonurus kiangsuensis. We also redesigned a neotype for this species.
Neotype designation for Afronurus kiangsuensis (Puthz, 1971): male imago, China, Jiangsu Province, Yi-Xing County, Hu-Fu Town (31°22′89.41″ N, 119°79′67.42″ E), 18-V-1995, collected by Chaodong Zhu. The neotype designed here was collected from the same province and in a very nearby locality of the original types, and has typical characters mentioned in the original description.
Other material examined: 6 male imagoes, 6 nymphs, same as the neotype; male imago (holotype of Cinygmina rubromaculata You et al., 1981), Jiangsu Province, Yi-Xing County, Ming-Lin Town (31°10′5.02″ N, 119°40′17.52″ E), 21-VII-1980, collected by Tian Wu; 12 male imagoes, 10 female imagoes (paratypes), same data as holotype; 6 male imagoes, 7 male subimagoes, 10 female imagoes, 8 female subimagoes, 40 nymphs, Hunan Province, Zhang-Jia-Jie City, Jin-Bian creek (29°32′18.93″ N, 110°44′15.57″ E), 12-VIII-2019, collected by Ran Li, Wei Zhang; 20 male imagoes, 5 male subimagoes, 8 female imagoes, 6 female subimagoes, Hubei Province, Yi- Chang City, Chang-Yang County, Gao-Jia-Yan Town, Qing-Yan Village (30°59′41.08″ N, 111°11′37.93″ E), 20-VII- 2013, collected by Yanxia Wang, Dan Zhou; 100 nymphs, Hainan Province, Chang-Jiang County, Ba-Wang-Ling (19°06′3761″ N, 109°17′0581″ E), 15-I-2015, collected by Junzhi Sun, Yike Han.
Distribution: Most areas of Chinese mainland except the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
description: Published as part of Ying, Xiaoli & Zhou, Changfa, 2021, The exact status and synonyms of three Chinese Afronurus Lestage, 1924 established by Navás in 1936 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae), pp. 95-100 in Zootaxa 5082 (1) on pages 97-98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/5783262