A new species of genus Gilliesia Peters & Edmunds from China (Ephemeroptera: Leptophlebiidae)

Abstract

Gilliesia pulchra n. sp., the second known species of the genus Gilliesia Peters and Edmunds, is described from male and female imagos collected in Southwestern China. The new species represents a new generic record for this country and extends the known distribution of the genus east across the Himalayan Mountains.