Additional records and poorly known species of Kamimuria Klapálek, 1907 (Plecoptera, Perlidae) from southern China
Author
Li, Kefan
0000-0003-1412-228X
Zhoukou Vocational and Technical College, Zhoukou, Henan 466000, China & kefanli @ 126. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1412 - 228 X
Author
Wang, Bingli
0000-0002-1080-549X
Henan International Joint Laboratory of Taxonomy and Systematic Evolution of Insecta, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, China & 645709325 @ qq. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1080 - 549 X
645709325@qq.com
Author
Bozdoğan, Hakan
0000-0002-6836-4383
Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Department of Plant and Animal Production, 40100, Kırşehir, Turkey & hakan. bozdogan @ ahievran. edu. tr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6836 - 4383
hakan.bozdogan@ahievran.edu.tr
Author
Li, Weihai
0000-0003-2803-4416
Henan International Joint Laboratory of Taxonomy and Systematic Evolution of Insecta, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, Henan 453003, China & lwh 7969 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2803 - 4416
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-09-15
5346
1
74
82
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5346.1.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5346.1.4
1175-5326
8353051
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Kamimuria liui
(
Wu, 1940
)
(
Figs. 2–3
)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid:
Plecoptera
.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:2334
Perla liui
Wu, 1940: 331
.
Holotype
male (Yenching University,
Beijing
), Liang-ho-kou, Pao-Hsing,
Sichuan Province
,
China
.
Kamimuria liui
:
Wu, 1962: 143
;
Zwick, 1977: 116
;
Sivec, 1981: 252
;
Sivec
et al
., 1988: 32
;
Du
et al
., 1999: 64
;
Sivec & Stark,
2008: 137;
Stark & Sivec, 2013: 117
;
Li & Li, 2022: 118
.
Examined material
.
1 male
(
CAUC
),
China
:
Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region
,
Guilin City
,
Xing’an County
,
Mao’ershan National Natural Reserve
,
1100–1600 m
,
25.87 N
,
110.42 E
,
2003.VII.1
, leg.
Xingyue Liu
;
3 males
,
Guangdong Province
,
Nanling
,
2005.VII.9–18
,
24.92 N
,
113.03 E
, leg.
Zaifu Xu.
Remarks
. These males represent the first report of
K. liui
from southern
China
. However, we are not so sure about the identity of this species. Geographically, there are several common species in
Guangxi
and
Sichuan
(
Mo
et al
. 2022
), including one species belonging to another perlid genus,
Neoperla bilineata
Wu & Claassen, 1934
, that is originally known from
Sichuan
and has been recently confirmed from
Guangxi
(
Mo
et al.
2021
). Thus, we could not exclude the possibility of
Kamimuria
specimens being
K. liui
.
We still need the haplotype of
K. liui
from
Sichuan Province
to solve this problem because its
holotype
is considered lost (
Sivec
et al.
1988
).
These males have a slightly L-shaped aedeagus with an enlarged apex in lateral aspect (
Figs. 2f
,
3f
), seemingly different from
K. klapaleki
Wu & Claassen, 1934
that has an aedeagus which is nearly right angled medially.
Sivec (1981)
identified specimens from
Nepal
and compared them with the specimens of
neotypes
of
K. liui
and provided new illustrations, but the apex of aedeagus seemed deformed or incompletely everted apically. The male from
Guangxi
has fewer sensilla on tergum 9 (
Fig. 2b
), but the mesal sclerite is of the same shape (comparing
Figs. 2b
,
3b
with fig. 5d in
Sivec 1981
).
Kamimuria liui
has been recorded from several provinces of
China
, but it seems that only the type locality of
Sichuan Province
and
Nepal
have been confirmed (
Li & Li 2022
). Morphologically, males from
Guangdong
and
Guangxi
share identical aedeagal shape and armatures (
Figs. 2d–f
,
3d–f
), indicating that these specimens from southern
China
are at least conspecific and aedeagal characteristics could serve as safe characters for identifying correctly to species. Variation in color pattern (
Figs. 2a
,
3a
), sensilla numbers (
Figs. 2b
,
3b–c
), and the hemitergal lobe herein we considered as intraspecific.