title: A new species of Labiobaetis (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from the southern Western Ghats in India, with comments on the taxonomic status of Labiobaetis.
abstract: A new species of Labiobaetis Novikova & Kluge, 1987, Labiobaetis soldani sp. nov., is described from the larvae and reared male and female imagoes from Gadana River in the southern Western Ghats in India. Brief ecological notes are appended. The taxonomic status of Labiobaetis is commented on in light of the morphological traits of the larvae and associated imagoes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai-625 009, Tamilnadu, India tkbaetis@gmail.com.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kubendran
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai-625 009, Tamilnadu, India sivarathina1986@gmail.com.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rathinakumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai-625 009, Tamilnadu, India ulab62@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, University of Madras, Guindy Campus, Chennai-600 025, India selvaaa06@gmail.com.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Selvakumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology, Madras Christian College (Autonomous), Tambaram East, Chennai-600 059, India kgskrishnan@gmail.com.
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Sivaramakrishnan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D065133:Ephemeroptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: distribution; mayfly; southern India; systematics