Redescription of a few Filchneria Klapálek, 1908 (Plecoptera, Perlodidae) species on the type and fresh material
Author
Teslenko, Valentina A.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (FSC EATB FEB RAS), 690022, Vladivostok, Russia.
Author
Palatov, Dmitry M.
Severtsov A. N. Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS, 33 Leninsky prospect, 119071 Moscow, Russia
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.2.3
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Zhiltzovaia amabilis
(
Jewett, 1958
)
=
Filchneria shobhaae
(
Singh & Ghosh, 1969
)
syn. nov.
Fig. 84
Singh & Ghosh, 1969: 134–135
, fig. 1 (
Perlodes shobhaae
).
Holotype
female and
paratypes
10 females
deposited in the National Zoological collection of Zoological Survey of
India
, Calcutta;
Zwick, 1973:230
(
Filchneria shobhaae
)
;
Chandra
et al.
2019: 229
(
Filchneria shobhaae
).
Remarks.
The redescription of
Zhiltzovaia amabilis
(
Jewett, 1958
)
, based on
type
and new material collected from the streams of Pamir (
Tajikistan
) and the northwestern Himalaya, including northern
India
(
Teslenko & Palatov 2020
) agrees well with the original relatively brief description of the female of
Filchneria shobhaae
by
Singh & Ghosh (1969)
. Taking into account the remarkable shape of the female subgenital plate (
Fig. 84
), the color pattern of the head, pronotum, legs, cerci, and the proximity of the
type
localities of
F
.
shobhaae
with recent records of
Z. amabilis
in the basin of the same Alaknanda River, in the state Unttarakhaand,
India
, and an identical time of emerging, we believe the species are considered conspecific. It also follows that
F. shobhaae
belongs to the genus
Zhiltzovaia
Özdikmen, 2008
. We propose to transfer
Filchneria shobhaae
to genus
Zhiltzovaia
and place
F. shobhaae
as a junior synonym of
Zhiltzovaia amabilis
(
Jewett, 1958
)
syn. nov.