Four new species and two new records of Polyplectropus from China (Trichoptera: Polycentropodidae)
Author
Zhong, Hua
Author
Yang, Lian-Fang
Author
Morse, John C.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2428
37
46
journal article
37430
10.5281/zenodo.204733
6580f7aa-cee6-418b-98d7-ffd34e18a06b
1175-5326
204733
Polyplectropus tianmushanensis
sp. nov.
Zhong and Yang
(
Fig. 22–28
)
Adult. Length of forewing
5.6–6.1 mm
(N = 2). Head brown with dark yellowish antennae, pronotum dark yellow, meso- and metanota light brown, forewings light brown.
Male genitalia. Posterior margin of sternum IX with mesal trapezoidal excision and small median protrusion in ventral view. Terga IX + X short, sub-trapezoidal, 1/3rd as long as width in dorsal view. Preanal appendage sub-rectangular, narrowed at base in lateral view, 2 times as long as height of distal margin. Dorsobasal process of preanal appendage enlarged basally, recurved caudad at 1/3 distance from base, with recurved portion evenly turned upward in lateral view. Inferior appendage gradually narrowed at distal 1/3rd, with apex highly sclerotized and extending beyond tips of preanal appendage; ventromesal lobe of inferior appendage well developed, forming subapical process in lateral and ventral views; in ventral view, apex of inferior appendage acute, strongly curved mesad; apex of subapical ventromesal lobe of inferior appendage slightly narrowed before blunt apex. Subphallic sclerite trough-like in caudal view (
Fig. 27
), apex deeply excised in “V” shape and with mesal oval excision in ventral view. Phallus simple tube, about 4 times as long as average width.
Holotype
: male,
Zhejiang Province
, Mt. Tian-mu.
30.4°N
,
119.5°E
, Xian-ren-ding, alt.
1500 m
,
20 July 1998
, Coll. ZHAO Ming-Shui.
Paratype
:
1 male
,
Zhejiang Province
, Mt. Tian-mu,
30.4°N
,
119.5°E
, San-muping, alt.
780 m
,
21 July 1999
, Coll. ZHAO Ming-Shui.
Diagnosis.
This new species is very similar to
Polyplectropus rostriformis
Zhong
et al.
2006
from
Anhui
, in the general shape of the male genitalia. It differs from it in that: 1) apicolateral margin of each inferior appendage is broadly rounded (the outer apical angle is in right angle in
P. rostriformis
); 2) the dorsobasal process of each preanal appendage is arc-shaped with apex straight (sinuate in
P. rostriformis
with hooked apex); and 3) the apex of the subphallic sclerite is deeply excised in a “V” shape with a mesal oval excision (deeply excised in a “V” shape with a mesal “V” shape excision in
P. rostriformis
).
Etymology.
The species name derives from “Tian-mu-shan,” the
type
locality of this new species.
Distribution.
China
(
Zhejiang
).