Discovery of Amurinocellia H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae) in China, with description of two new species
Author
Liu, Xingyue
Author
Aspöck, Horst
Author
Yang, Ding
Author
Aspöck, Ulrike
text
Zootaxa
2009
2264
41
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190814
893e2002-237f-4e95-9352-be0eaefca251
1175-5326
190814
Amurinocellia
H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck
, stat. nov.
Amurinocellia
H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck, 1973
: 91
.
Type
species:
Inocellia calida
H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck, 1973
(designated by monotypy).
Diagnosis.
Body coloration of adult generally blackish brown with yellowish thoracic and abdominal markings. Antennae and legs much paler, usually pale yellow or yellowish brown. Male ninth gonocoxite nearly as long as ninth tergite, posterodorsal corner distinctly produced, ventrally with a digitiform process, and with a long and hook-like pseudostylus (gonapophysis 9) produced from the inner surface. Fused parameres (complex of amalgamated gonocoxites, gonapophyses, gonostyli 10) flattened proximally, with a slender and hook-like distal process. Gonarcus (fused gonocoxites 11) rather small and feebly sclerotized. Female seventh sternite posteriorly emarginate; eighth abdominal segment with tergite posteriorly produced ventrad, ventral portion membranous, nearly enveloped by tergite, subgenital plate absent.
Distribution.
China
,
North Korea
,
South Korea
,
Russia
.
Remarks.
Amurinocellia
was transferred as a subgenus from
Inocellia
to
Parainocellia
based on the presence of a pair of hook-like pseudostyli between the male ninth gonocoxites (H.
Aspöck
et al.
, 1980
). However, as already stated in the original description by
H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck (1973)
,
P. (A.) calida
is the only species of
Inocelliidae
so far known in which the ninth gonocoxites are not simply cup-like, but possess distinct processes. Besides the shape of the ninth gonocoxites of the males,
Amurinocellia
can be easily distinguished from
Parainocellia
s.str.
by the extremely elongated pseudostyli (gonapophyses 9), the degenerated gonarcus (gonocoxites 11) of the males, and the ventrolaterally modified eighth tergite of the females. Due to our recent discovery of new species in
China
,
Amurinocellia
is not a monotypic subgenus with a single species but comprises three species distributed in a wider geographical range. The morphological differences to
Parainocellia
s.str.
and the other Inocelliid genera seem to justify raising
Amurinocellia
to generic level.