Caddisflies from Myanmar: New records and descriptions of new species (Insecta, Trichoptera)
Author
Mey, Wolfram
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute of Evolution and Biodiversity Research, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin, Germany Sonnengasse 13, Lunz am See, Austria. tatarin. kyselak @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1305 - 8378
Author
Malicky, Hans
0000-0003-1305-8378
tatarin.kyselak@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-11-02
5060
4
533
565
journal article
3686
10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.4
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Apatania naumanni
spec. nov.
(
Figs 7A–7F
)
LSID
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
85121065-4D84-4095-AC81-9D99228700DA
Holotype
♂
and
paratypes
2 ♂
1 ♀
(in ethyl alcohol),
Myanmar
,
Kachin State
, road
Kanphant
to
Mt. Inwa Bum
, near pass,
3008 m
,
26°10’31.9”N
98°30’03.4”E
,
26.v.2006
, leg.
S. Naumann
, (
MfN
).
Etymology.
The species is named in honour of Dr. S. Naumann, the collector of this species.
Diagnosis.
Although the sclerotized supragenital plate and sclerotized anal tube in the female genitalia are not present, we include this species in the genus
Apatania
Kolenati 1847
. This placement is justified by corresponding wing venation and absence of apomorphic characters of other genera of Apataniinae.
Apatania naumanni
spec. nov.
is tentatively assigned to the
A. complexa
Group, which includes most of the ancestral species of the genus. The phallic apparatus is in a primitive state due to its short length and bulbous endotheca with slightly extending lateral flanges without parameres. Long apical spines on the harpagones were listed as a diagnostic character of
Protobaicalina
Ivanov & Meshutkina (1996)
. They are also present in
A. naumanni
spec. nov.
, but as much smaller spines on long harpagones, rendering this character being in an ancestral state. The settlement of Lake Baikal by ancestral species of Apataniinae which led to the subsequent formation and radiation of endemic taxa, is still an unresolved question.
A. naumanni
spec. nov.
might represent a remnant of those species that were able to colonise Lake Baikal in the Tertiary. The species might belong to the group of relict insect taxa that have survived in the transition zone of the Palearctic and Oriental regions.
FIGURE 7.
Apatania naumanni
spec. nov.
, scale = 0.5 mm:
7A
, male genitalia, left lateral;
7B
, male genitalia, dorsal;
7C
, male genitalia, ventral;
7D
, female genitalia, left lateral;
7E
, female genitalia, dorsal;
7F
, female genitalia, ventral.
Description.
Length of each forewing (
♂
,
♀
)
6.3–6.5 mm
. Head brown, palpi and antennae light brown, ocelli and setal warts grey-white. Thorax brown dorsally and light brown ventrally. Legs light brown, praetarsus without ventral spines, spurs 1.2.4. Forewings brown, each with underside of costa with row of hairs, radius without spines or scales, hind wings with Cu1a and M3 fused for short distance.
Male genitalia (
Figs 7A–7C
). Dorsal part of segment IX shortened on anterior margin, ventral part with desclerotized, quadrangular area. Preanal appendages large, lobate. Inferior appendages with short coxopodites; slender hargagones twice as long as coxopodites, each bearing four short spines on apex. External branch of each intermediate appendage triangular in lateral view, with one or two minute processes on posterior margin; internal branch broadly attached to slender, sickle-shaped dorsal lobe of segment IX (sensu
Schmid 1955
). Ventrobasal part of segment X sclerotized, apical part membranous. Phallic apparatus short, phallobase weakly sclerotized, large endotheca with extended flanges, aedeagus membranous, parameres absent.
Female genitalia (
Fig 7D–7F
). Median process of segment VIII membranous, slightly sclerotized at tip. Segment IX without anterolateral apophyses; caudal part without sclerotized supragenital plate. Segment X with two lateral, compressed, setose lobes, separated dorsally by median, triangular part; final part of anal tube melanized, attached to ventral side of segment X. Vulvar scale with dorsal process extending over median process.