NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN EPHEMEROPTERA
NEW SPECIES OF INDIAN EPHEMEROPTERA
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10.1111/j.1365-3113.1947.tb00865.x
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2009-03
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D. E. Kimmins
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D. E. Kimmins
本文所依据的材料是在 1945 年 10 月至 1946 年 1 月初期间收集的，当时作者在印度皇家空军服役。收集的主要区域位于加尔各答北部，靠近达金什瓦尔（毗邻胡格利河上的新威灵顿大桥）。这个国家地势平坦，地势低洼，有很多大池塘，当地人称为“坦克”或“gheels”。水是静态的、温暖的，而且，正如所预料的，蜉蝣动物群似乎仅由蝙蝠科（Cloeon 等）和CAENIDAE 科的成员组成。收集了前者的五个物种和后者的两个物种，这七个物种中的六个被描述为科学上的新物种。距离加尔各答约两英里的另一个地方以及加尔各答植物园也进行了收集。印度的 Cloe-on 物种，就像我们的英国物种 C. diptterum 一样，在城市环境中生活得很自在，作者在加尔各答市中心看到了大群的雄性在阳光下跳舞。作者谨向孟加拉渔业主任 SL Hora 博士和印度动物调查局主任 BN Chopra 博士表示诚挚的谢意，感谢他们随时为他提供收集设备的帮助，而他无法从那里空运这些设备。 英格兰。
THE material upon which this paper is based was collected during the period October, 1945, to early January, 1946, whilst the author was serving with the Royal Air Force in India. The main area in which collecting was done lay to the north of Calcutta, near Dakhineswar (adjacent to the new Willingdon Bridge over the Hooghly River). The country is flat and low, and abounds in large ponds, known locally as" tanks" or" gheels." The water is static and warm, and, as might be expected, the ephemeropterous fauna appears to consist solely of members of the families BAETIDAE (Cloeon, etc.) and CAENIDAE. Five species of the former and two of the latter were collected, six of the seven species being here described as new to science. Collections were also made at another locality about two miles nearer Calcutta, and at the Calcutta Botanic Gardens. Indian species of Cloe-on, like our British species C. dipterum, are quite at home in urban surroundings, and the author has seen large swarms of males dancing in the sunlight in the· centre of Calcutta.The author wishes to express his sincere thanks to Dr. SL Hora, Director of Fisheries, Bengal, and to Dr. BN Chopra, Director, Zoological Survey of India, for their ready assistance in providing him with collecting equipment, which he was unable to bring with him by air from England.