Revision of the African Neoperla Needham, 1905 (Plecoptera: Perlidae: Perlinae) based on morphological and molecular data
Author
Zwick, Peter
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pleco-p.zwick@t-online.de
Author
Zwick, Andreas
0000-0002-7532-1752
andreas.zwick@csiro.au
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-17
5316
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5316.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5316.1.1
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Neoperla sjostedti
Klapálek, 1909
The species is well defined morphologically and by DNA. However, since the amount of material suitable for molecular study differed much between the included three morphs, coverage is therefore very unequal. Two of the morphs fit the
types
of historical nominal species and are recorded as
N. sjostedti sjostedti
Klapálek,1909
and
N. sjostedti needhami
Lestage, 1921
, respectively. Both vary and females cannot reliably be identified. Male morphology suggests the taxa are essentially allopatric, with a suspected contact zone at Tukuyu, near Lake
Malawi
in the Great Rift Valley (
Fig. 458
, arrow) where intermediate morphs possibly occur.
Of the third morph only the female is known, DNA and morphology agree between the eight individuals which form a homogeneous block within the complex. The morph is briefly described but not named.