First record of the nominotypical subgenus Acentrella Bengtsson, 1912 (Ephemeroptera: Baetidae) from India with description of a new species

First record of the genus Alainites Waltz & McCafferty, 1994 (Ephemeroptera, Baetidae) from India with the description of a new species from the North-western Himalayas

“…Yet, the freshwater entomofauna remains poorly known for baetids and other mayflies. A new species of Acentrella (A. isacki Srinivasan et al, 2023) was recently discovered from a hill stream in the north-western Himalayas and the same batch of samples yielded another new species of the genus Alainites, which is also the first record of this genus for the country.…”

“…The Indian Baetidae Leach, 1815 comprise about 15 genera and 60 species (Selvakumar et al 2019;Kluge 2020;Kluge & Suttinun 2020;Kubendran et al 2021;Sivaruban et al 2022;Srinivasan et al 2023). Jammu and Kashmir lie in the northwest part of the Himalayas at the intersection of the Palearctic and the Oriental realms, and harbour a rich biodiversity.…”