New species and a new record of Capniidae (Plecoptera) from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwestern China
Author
Chen, Zhi-Teng
Author
Du, Yu-Zhou
text
Zootaxa
2017
4311
1
122
128
journal article
32338
10.11646/zootaxa.4311.1.8
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Isocapnia apicispina
Chen & Du
,
sp. nov.
Figs. 7–15
.
Male.
Body length
10.6 mm
. Forewings length
9.7 mm
, hindwings length
8.7 mm
. Body generally dark brown. Head rounded, nearly as wide as pronotum; three ocelli pale, compound eyes dark (
Fig. 7
). Pronotum quadrate, corners obtuse. Wings macropterous, subhyaline with brown veins; forewings with four costal cross veins before end of Sc; hindwings with four costal cross veins before end of Sc; anal field of hindwings small and folded with three veins. Tergal antecosta interrupted on terga 1–5 and 10, complete on terga 6–9 (
Fig. 7
). Legs brown to dark brown. Cerci slender and brown, each segment parallel-sided with long distal hairs (
Fig. 7
).
Male abdomen: Tergum 9 strongly concave and sclerotized at anterior and posterior margins (
Fig. 8
). Tergum 10 cleft with sclerotized margins. From dorsal aspect, basal sclerite trapezoidal and slightly depressed posteriorly. Main epiproct sclerite gradually tapered from base to the triangular apex from dorsal view (
Fig. 8
). In lateral view, main epiproct sclerite upcurved and gradually constricted with a ventroapical spine, bearing sparse setae; dorsal surface of apical main epiproct sclerite truncated, lateral margins with small sensilla (
Figs. 9, 11
). Sternum 9 with a fusiform, setose vesicle, with a thin basal stem, length ⅓ of subgenital plate (
Fig. 10
). Subgenital plate broad basally and sharp apically, strongly sclerotized anterolaterally; paraprocts curved, anterolateral margins obtuse (
Fig. 10
).
Female.
Body length 14.5–15.0 mm. Forewings length
10–10.5 mm
, hindwings length 9.5–10.0 mm. General color similar to male; terga 2–8 with median membranous area (
Fig. 12
). Sternum 8 with a medially constricted subgenital plate butterfly-like shaped, the plate anteriorly connected with dark anterior sclerites; the lateral sclerites subtriangular, with punctuate surface and darkly sclerotized anterior angles (
Fig. 13
).
Type
material.
Holotype
: male,
China
:
Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region,
Fuyun County
,
Riverside Park
,
Eerqisi River
,
793m
,
46.9865 N
,
89.5247 E
,
29 April
, 2017, Hai-Yang Xue (
ICYZU
)
.
Paratypes
:
1 male
and
6 females
, same locality and data as
holotype
(
ICYZU
)
.
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the apical spine of epiproct.
Remarks.
Male
paratype
of the new species is strongly micropterous (forewings length
0.75 mm
, hindwings length
0.5 mm
) and its main epiproct sclerite is more curved, indicating the presence of wing polymorphism in this species (
Figs. 14–15
). The new species seems most similar to
I. arcuata
Zhiltzova, 1975
(in:
Zhiltzova
et al
. 1975
,
Zenger & Baumann 2004
) from
Russia
, but can be distinguished by its dorsal apex of main epiproct sclerite truncated with denticulate lateral margins, by having a ventroapical spine on epiproct, and by the sclerite of sternum
8 in
the shape of a butterfly. In
I. arcuata
, male main epiproct sclerite is much longer with a rounded tip; shape of sclerite on sternum
8 in
females also differs from that in the new species (see figs.
1038–1040
in
Teslenko & Zhiltzova 2009
).