1Department of Zoology, Thiagarajar College (Autonomous), Madurai, 625009, Tamil Nadu, India
Department of Zoology, Thiravium College of Arts and Science for Women, Kailasapatty Periyakulam, Theni-625 605, Tamil Nadu, India
*Corresponding author's present address: High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Saproon, Solan-173 211, Himachal Pradesh, India; E-mail: tkbaetis@gmail.com
Online published on 8 April, 2019.
Extensive collections of mayflies from the southern Western Ghats resulted in new record of the genus Povilla Navas, 1912 and redescribed based on larvae collected from Tamiraparani River, S.T. Mangad, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu, India. Thereby providing geographic range extension from Sri Lanka to India and brief ecological notes are appended. Key to the larvae of Povilla also provided.
Povilla (Languidipes) taprobanes, mayfly, Southern India, Western Ghats, new record
