Kamimuria guangxia, Wang, Hong-Liang, Wang, Guo-Quan & Li, Wei-Hai, 2013

Wang, Hong-Liang, Wang, Guo-Quan & Li, Wei-Hai, 2013, Two new species in the subfamily Perlinae (Plecoptera, Perlidae) from China, ZooKeys 313, pp. 81-90 : 82-83

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.313.5460

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/45F835F0-97E3-C65C-5DE2-467B1E1E5B20

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scientific name

Kamimuria guangxia
status

sp. n.

Kamimuria guangxia   ZBK sp. n. Figs 1-3

Type material.

Holotype: male, originally labeled as China: Guangxi autonomous region, Tian’e County, Buliuhe River, light trap, 25.0005N, 107.1738E, 16 Aug. 2002, Ding Yang. Paratypes: 2 males, same data as holotype.

Male.

Forewing length 14.8 - 15.0 mm. General body color dark brown. Head slightly wider than pronotum, generally brown with darker, quadrate interocellar region, the anterior corners of which extend laterally in teneral specimen, M-line pale (Figs 1A-B); compound eyes dark; antennae dark brown. Pronotum dark brown with rugose surface (Fig. 1A); wing membrane brown, veins darker; femora pale basally, otherwise dark (Fig. 1E).

Terminalia.

Hemiterga slender, finger-like, and slightly swollen apically, without hidden groove (Figs 2 A–B). Tergum 9 with posteromedial patch of sensilla basiconical on a somewhater darker sclerite. Tergum 8 without sensilla patch. (Figs 1C, 2A). Setal brushes present on sterna 4-6. Aedeagus before eversion oval, apex tapering, hidden sac with apex darker and palm-like, with two lateral sharp claws and a median pad (Fig. 2C). Aedeagal sac membranous, medially constricted, apex expanded, heart-shaped and mostly covered with fine spinules, the apex and basal half of the sac bare (Fig. 3).

Female.

Unknown.

Etymology.

The specific epithet refers to Guangxi autonomous region where the type specimen was collected.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi).

Diagnosis.

The male of Kamimuria guangxia is characterized by the hemiterga being slightly swollen apically. The aedeagal sac is membranous, medially constricted, apex expanded, heart-shaped and mostly covered with fine to tiny spines (Figs 1C, 2B). The new species is similar to Kamimuria atra Sivec & Stark, 2008, a species known both from Vietnam and Thailand, in general body color and features of terminalia, but tergum 8 of the new species has no sensilla basiconica patch.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Plecoptera

Family

Perlidae

Genus

Kamimuria