Taxonomic notes on Neoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Sichuan Province of China with the description of two new species
Author
Li, Weihai
Author
Wang, Ying
Author
Wang, Rongfeng
text
Zootaxa
2017
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191
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journal article
37301
10.5281/zenodo.248632
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Neoperla microtumida
Wu & Claassen, 1934
(
Fig. 8
c)
Neoperla microtumida
Wu & Claassen, 1934
: 123
.
Type
locality:
China
:
Sichuan
(between
Kiating
and Yachow).
Material examined.
Holotype
(
USNM
),
China
:
Szechuan
,
between Kiating and Yachow
,
1300–1500 ft
,
July 2–4 1930
,
D.C. Graham
(No. 119).
Diagnosis
and remarks.
This
species was redescribed based on a similar male from
Thailand
(
Stark 1987
).
The
holotype
is badly faded. The aedeagus (
Fig. 8
c) is broken at base and impossible to successfully evert. However, our examination confirms the original illustration of the aedeagus (fig. 19,
Wu and Claassen 1934
). The aedeagal sac is ca. half as long as tube and has a row of ca. 4–5 distinct spines on each lateral side (our illustration, fig. 8c, is taken from dorsal or ventral view, so the armatures are paired). The
Thailand
specimen clearly has a longer aedeagal sac and lacks the spinous lateral rows present in the aedeagal sac of the
holotype
. Therefore, this specimen apparently belongs to another species (fig. 3,
Stark 1987
).