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Actually, African Mayflies are depauperate and few diversified (81 genera and 368 species). The study of genus and species numbers described during each decades since the last century till now, associated to the number of authors working on that order and, the setting up of a map of prospected areas, proof that the poverty of Mayfly in Africa is rather due to a poor knowledge than to a real poverty.
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Elouard, J.M. (2001). Knowledge of the African-Malagasy Mayflies. In: DomÃnguez, E. (eds) Trends in Research in Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1257-8_4
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