Taxonomy on crane flies in family Tipulidae and Limoniidae (Diptera: Tipuloidea) from Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve, Anhui, China Author Men, Qiulei Author Lu, Zhiyong Author Sheng, Pingping Author Gui, Xiang Author Wang, Zhizhong Author Mu, Dan text Zoological Systematics 2017 42 4 476 489 journal article 10.11865/zs.201720 2095-6827 5366761 965EE80F-11BE-430D-91CA-325C66A9FD1D Tipula ( Vestiplex ) jiangi Yang & Yang, 1991 ( Figs 54–66 ) Tipula ( Vestiplex ) jiangi Yang & Yang, 1991: 253 . Diagnosis. The species is general yellowish-brown in coloration. Head is yellowish-brown with a brown occipital stripe. Prescutum is grayish-brown, heavily pruinose, with four brown stripes. Wings are grayish-brown with cells c and sc darker than ground color. Abdominal tergites one to four are yellowish-brown with darker stripes medially and laterally, tergites five to eight are wholly dark brown. Tergite nine is separated medially into two parts, with a pair of angular arms ventrally. Gonocoxite is elongate, widened basally and gradually narrowed to apex forming a horn directed dorsally. Description. Male body length 16.0 mm, wing 18.4mm , antenna 3.5 mm . Head. Rostrum yellowish-brown with nasus slightly darker. Antennae with scape elongated, yellowish, slightly expanded apically; pedicel very short, pot-shaped, yellowish; flagellum with basal two segments yellow, the rest segments yellowish-gray, with slightly enlarged base dark brown, each flagellomere with black verticils distinctly longer than the flagellomeres from which they arise. Palpi brown. Head yellowish -brown, occipital stripe brown, gradually narrowed to apex, the point extending to the base of vertical tubercle ( Fig. 54 ). Thorax. Pronotum grayish-brown, with a narrowed yellow area on anterior margin. Prescutum grayish-brown, heavily pruinose, with four brown stripes, all stripes with darker margins ( Fig. 55 ). The median stripe broadened apically and gradually narrowed to base, the lateral stripes long-oval ( Fig. 55 ). Scutum grayish-brown, heavily pruinose, lobes with a dark brown spots ( Fig. 55 ). Scutellum grayish-brown, pruinose, median area paler ( Fig. 55 ). Postnotum grayish-brown, heavily pruinose ( Fig. 55 ). Pleura grayish-brown, anepisternum, katepisternum and meron distinctly pruinose ( Fig. 56 ). Halteres with stem yellowish-brown, knob dark brown. Legs with coxae and trochanters yellow; femora yellowish-brown with dark brown apex; tibiae and tarsi dark brown. Wing with ground color grayish-brown, cells c and sc darker than ground color, stigma dark brown, Rs tinged with dark brown at both ends, apex of wing tinged with light brown including bases of cells r 1+2 , r 3 , r 4+5 , m, cu, the bases of cells m and cu tinged with light brown ( Fig. 57 ). Rs relatively long, slightly shorter than R 3 , R 1+2 entire, discal cell relatively broad, petiole of cell m 1 distinctly shorter than discal cell ( Fig. 57 ). Abdomen. Abdominal tergites one to four yellowish-brown with median and lateral stripes, tergites five to eight wholly dark brown ( Fig. 58 ). Sternites one to four yellowish-brown without stripes, sternites five to eight wholly dark brown. Hypopygium dark brown ( Figs 58–59 ). Gonocoxite elongate, separated from sternite nine, widened basally and gradually narrowed to apex forming a horn directed dorsally ( Figs 60–62 ). Tergite nine separated medially, a pair of angular arms arising from ventral surface of tergite nine ( Fig. 61 ). Sternite nine with a median prominence, on each side of which with a pair of finger-like processes ( Fig. 62 ). Outer gonostylus simple, long lobes ( Figs 60–62 ). Inner gonostylus with two beaks and a transverse ridge medially, dorsal angle rounded in outer lateral view, with a transparent angular lobe on inner side in dorsal view ( Figs 60–64 ). Semen pump with compressor apodeme V-shaped, each arm expanded apically ( Fig. 66 ). Posterior immovable apodeme straight, narrowed to apex, subequal in length to compressor apodeme ( Fig. 65 ). Anterior immovable apodeme with arms broad ( Fig. 65 ). Aedeagus slender, at least 2.5 times longer than semen pump ( Fig. 65 ). Material examined. 1♂ , Anhui , Yaoluoping National Nature Reserve , Yaoluoping Village ( 30°59'N , 116°04'E ), 15 August 2013 , coll. Qiulei Men. Distribution. China ( Anhui , Hubei , Sichuan ) Figures 54–60. Tipula ( Vestiplex ) jiangi . 54. Head, dorsal view. 55. Thorax, dorsal view. 56. Thorax, lateral view. 57. Wing. 58. Abdomen, lateral view. 59, 60. Hypopygium, lateral view. Scale bars: 54–58 = 1.0 mm; 59–60 =0.5 mm. Key to crane flies in Yaoluoping National Natural Reserve. 1. Terminal segment of palpus elongate, distinctly longer than rest segments; nasus usually distinct; Sc 1 usually atrophied or incomplete ( Tipulidae )............................................................................................................................................................................................2 Terminal segment of palpus short, subequal to rest segments in length; nasus absent; Sc 1 complete ( Limoniidae ).............................3 2. Second to ninth flagellomere with two branches................................................................................................. Dictenidia yuexiensis Flagellomere without branch................................................................................................................................................................4 3. Inner gonostylus with processes or lobes .............................................................................................................................................5 Inner gonostylus without any prominence .................................................................................... Hexatoma ( Eriocera ) cleopatroides 4. Terminal of femora with comb-like bristle........................................................................................................................................... 6 Terminal of femora without comb-like bristle...................................................................................................................................... 7 5. Femora with a pale brown subterminal ring; inner gonostylus subtriangular................................. Libnotes ( Libnotes ) pseudonohirai Femora without such subterminal ring; inner gonostylus oval............................................................... Libnotes ( Libnotes ) wanensis 6. Pleura with a narrow stripe ................................................................................................................................ Holorusia herculeana Pleura without stripe ................................................................................................................................................ Holorusia henana 7. Rs very short, Sc ending nearly opposite origin of Rs ....................................... Nephrotoma impigra anqingensis Men , subsp. nov. Rs elongate, Sc meeting R beyond origin of Rs ...................................................................................................................................8 8. Male hypopygium with tergite nine produced into a simple finger-like prominence apically................... Tipula ( Yamatotipula ) nova Tergite nine of male hypopygium without such prominence apically .................................................................................................. 9 9. Ovipositor with hypovalva short, triangular....................................................................................................................................... 10 Ovipositor with hypovalva elongated, acinacifoliate ......................................................................................................................... 11 10. Tergite nine with narrow notch medially, apically divided into two finger-like projections ... Tipula ( Emodotipula ) yaoluopingensis Tergite nine without such notch and finger-like projections...................................... Tipula ( Emodotipula ) alexanderi Men , sp. nov. 11. Tergite nine produced into narrowed, sword-shaped projection in lateral angle .......................... Tipula ( Pterelachisus ) biaciculifera Tergite nine not as above....................................................................................................................................................................12 12. Gonocoxite elongate, paliform apically ...................................................................................................... Tipula ( Vestiplex ) coxitalis Gonocoxite short, acute apically ..................................................................................................................... Tipula ( Vestiplex ) jiangi Funding This study is supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31300551), the start- Figures 61–66. Tipula ( Vestiplex ) jiangi . 61. Hypopygium, dorsal view. 62. Hypopygium, ventral view. 63. Inner gonostylus, lateral view. 64. Inner gonostylus, dorsal view. 65. Semen pump, lateral view. 66. Compressor apodeme, dorsal view. Scale bars: 61–62 = 0.5 mm; 63–66 = 0.25 mm. up grant of scientific research from Anqing Normal University (044-K05000130005). Acknowledgments I wish to express sincere thanks to Dr. Pjotr Oosterbroek, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands , for his help with literature and for his valuable web site, the Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (http://ccw.naturalis.nl/index.php). I also want to thank Dr. Pavel Starkevich, the Nature Research Centre, Lithuania , for his help with translation of literature in Russian.