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A new species of Platybaetis is described from nymphal and subimago material collected from Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory. These dorso-ventrally flattened mayfly nymphs are very small and lack a number of characters expressed by the four described species from south east Asia. A subimago was reared and verified Miüeller-Liebenau’s recognition that Platybaetis was closely related to a “Pseudocloeon” type adult.
Field collections from the South Alligator River in Kakadu National Park suggested that this species has a distinct diurnal activity which reduces the chance of collection of this small nymph.
The Australian Monitoring River Health Initiative collections from northern Queensland also included nymphs of this species and extends the known distribution across the tropical north of the Australian continent.
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Suter, P.J. (2001). Platybaetis Gagadjuensis, a New Species from Northern Australia (Ephemeroptera : Baetidae). In: Domínguez, E. (eds) Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1257-8_41
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