A new species of Isoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) from the Qinling Mountains of northwestern China and notes on the Chinese species of the genus
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Chen, Zhi-Teng
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Song, Liang-Dong
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Feng, Wen-Tao
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Isoperla fengi
Wu & Claassen, 1934
Isoperla fengi
Wu & Claassen, 1934
. Bull. Pek. Soc. Nat. Hist., 9(2): 114;
Wu, 1935a
. Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium, 1: 301;
Wu, 1938b
. Plecopterorum Sinensium, a monograph of the stoneflies of
China
(Order
Plecoptera
): 42;
Claassen, 1940
. Mem. Cornell agric. Exp. Sta., 232: 200;
Illies, 1966
. Das Tierreich, 82: 402;
Yang & Li, 2018
. Species Catalogue of
China
. Vol. 2. Animals, Insecta (III),
Plecoptera
: 49.
Type information.
Holotype
female,
China
:
Jilin Province
,
Mt. Xiaobeishan.
1929.VI.19.
Remarks.
The
holotype
female is only known specimen of this species. Apparently, the female is characterized by the large, bilobed subgenital plate covering sternum 9, and by the paraprocts long triangular (
Fig. 1F
; see fig.
4 in
Wu & Claassen 1934
). Color pattern: head yellowish brown with a rounded yellow spot in ocellar area and with yellow areas inside the compound eyes; pronotum brown, medially with a broad, yellow, longitudinal stripe, lateral areas with dark brown rugosities; legs brown; ventral surface of body brown (
Wu & Claassen, 1934
). Although only the female description is available, the uncommon shape of subgenital plate appears diagnostic. An associated male is required to complete the description of this species