Afronurus Lestage, 1924

Boonsoong, Boonsatien & Braasch, Dietrich, 2013, Heptageniidae (Insecta, Ephemeroptera) of Thailand, ZooKeys 272, pp. 61-93 : 80

Genus Afronurus Lestage, 1924 Figs 3A4 D–G8C–D 9A

Remarks.

The synonymization of Cinygmina with Afronurus is recognized by Wang and McCafferty (2004), Kluge (2004), and Braasch and Freitag (2008). The genus Afronurus includes at least 43 species from the Oriental region ( Braasch 1987, 1990, 2005, 2011; Braasch and Boonsoong 2010, Braasch and Soldán 1984a, 1987, Flowers and Pescador 1984, Braasch and Jacobus 2011, Kang and Yang 1994, Kimmins 1937, Nguyen and Bae 2003, Venkataraman and Sivaramakrishnan 1989, Zhou and Zheng 2003). It indicates the complicated situation in determining species of Afronurus in the Oriental; in Southeast Asia many species are known only by larvae, or described as adults with affiliation of larvae from the same locality; the rearing of species and genetic investigations will be the aim of a future research. Afronurus larvae are usually the dominant heptageniid benthic macro-invertebrates in Thai streams. In this study, we propose five described species of the genus Cinygmina Kimmins, 1937 = Afronurus Lestage, 1924.