Leptophlebiidae
Creators: name: Selvakumar, C.
name: Sivaruban, T.
name: Subramanian, K. A.
name: Sivaramakrishnan, K. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Ephemeroptera
Leptophlebiidae

description: Key to known genera of south Indian Leptophlebiidae (Larva)
1. Abdominal tergites extending round to ventral surface of the abdomen on segments 3–7, slender gills arise ventrally.................................................................................................... Isca (Isca)
- Abdominal tergites extend to lateral margins of the body; gills arise laterally.......................................2
2. Gills present on abdominal segments 1–6.......................................................... Notophlebia
- Gills present on abdominal segments 1–7...................................................................3
3. Middle abdominal gills (3–5) with a fringed margin or with filamentous processes..................................4
- Middle abdominal gills not as above.......................................................................5
4. Middle abdominal gills plate like, broadly oval, entire margins fringed with filamentous processes............... Thraulus
- Middle abdominal gills plate- like, irregular in shape, unevenly fringed with rather broad filamentous processes.... Petersula
5. Middle abdominal gills leaf-like; apex of gills 1–7 with three filamentous processes, the median process longer than the lateral processes.................................................................................... Nathanella
- Middle abdominal gills plate like; apex of gills not as above....................................................6
6. Lamellae of gills 2–7 trifurcate...........................................................................7
- Lamellae of gills 2–7 not trifurcate........................................................................ 9
7. Gills 1–7 monolamellate....................................................... Choroterpes (Monochoroterpes)
- Gills 1–7 bilamellate...................................................................................8
8. Middle abdominal gills terminated in 3 slender, subequal processes........................ .. Choroterpes (Euthraulus)
- Middle abdominal gills terminated in 3 processes, with median projection longer than laterals.... Choroterpes (Choroterpes)
9. Denticles on claws progressively larger apically; apical denticle much larger............................. Edmundsula
- Denticles on claws progressively larger apically; apical denticle not much larger...................................10
10. Gills 1–7 similar, dorsal and ventral portions of lamellae slender, tracheae branched............................ Indialis
- Gills 1–7 dissimilar; dorsal and ventral portions of lamellae of gill 1 slender and lanceolate with branched trachea, dorsal and ventral portions of lamellae of gills 2–7 wider and lanceolate and tapering near apex................ Klugephlebia gen. n.
description: Published as part of Selvakumar, C., Sivaruban, T., Subramanian, K. A. & Sivaramakrishnan, K. G., 2016, A new genus and species of Atalophlebiinae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae) from Palni hills of the southern Western Ghats, India, pp. 381-391 in Zootaxa 4208 (4) on pages 383-384, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.208362