Notes On Rhopalopsole Klapálek (Plecoptera: Leuctridae), With Descriptions Of Three New Species From Vietnam
Author
Stark, Bill P.
Box 4045, Department of Biology, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi 39058, U. S. A. E-mail: stark @ mc. edu
stark@mc.edu
Author
Sivec, Ignac
Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, P. O. Box 290, SLO- 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail: isivec @ pms-lj. si
isivec@pms-lj.si
Author
Shimizu, Takao
Freshwater Benthos Associates, Hiraka 2666 - 24, Saku City, Nagano Prefecture, 385 - 0034, Japan E-mail: kawagera @ mac. com
kawagera@mac.com
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Rhopalopsole sinuacercia
Sivec & Shimizu
,
nom. nov.
Rhopalopsole longicercia
Sivec & Shimizu 2008:89
. No
holotype
designated
Material examined.
Holotype
♂
,
5♂
,
5♀
paratypes
,
Japan
,
Shizuoka Prefecture
,
Kiyozasa Pass
,
24 May 1986
,
M. Satô
(P. Zwick collection).
Additional
paratypes
all from
Japan
:
Oyana-gawa
,
800 m
,
Kaji
Zawa-cho, Yamanasi,
29 May 1993
,
T
. Hattari,
3♂
,
3♀
(Lake Biwa Museum).
Kanagawa
,
Yamakita-machi
,
Yoki-zawa
, small tributary,
10 May 1996
,
T
.
Shimizu
,
8♂
,
2♀
(
Lake Biwa Museum
)
.
Shizuoka Prefecture
,
Haruno-San
,
26 May 1986
,
M. Satô
4♂
(
P. Zwick
collection)
.
Figs. 8-11.
Rhopalopsole sapa
structures. 8. Male terminalia, dorsal. 9. Male terminalia, ventral. 10. Male terminalia, lateral. 11. Female terminalia, ventral.
Detailed descriptions and figures are available in
Sivec et al. 2008
, pages 89-91. The new name is required because the original descriptions for adults of this species are presented as a species complex description without designation of a
holotype
. An additional problem occurs in selection of “longicercia” as the original specific epithet because
R. longicerca
Kawai 1968
is rendered as
R. longicercia
Kawai
on page
101 in
Sivec et al. (2008)
.
Etymology.
The species name refers to the slightly sinuate curvature of the cerci in dorsal and lateral aspect.
Diagnosis.
Males of this species have a relatively long, acute epiproct, relatively short, unforked lateral processes with swollen bases on tergum 10, long sinuate cerci with terminal, inwardly-directed spine, and an unusual, warty process set near the posteromedian point of tergum 9. This combination of characters is otherwise unknown (
Sivec et al. 2008
), however as
Sivec et al. (2008)
indicate, additional, closely related species are expected.