Panorpa jinfo Wang, 2024

Wang, Ji-Shen & Zhao, Can-Jun, 2024, Taxonomy of the Panorpa issikiana species group, with descriptions of twenty new species (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1), pp. 79-106 : 88-89

Panorpa jinfo Wang sp. nov.

( Figs 45–54, 207)

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J ( CN22 Piskjfo001), CHINA: CHONGQING: Nanchuan District, Jinfo (Golden Buddha) Mountain , 29°02′00″N,

107°11′30″E, 2230 m, 22.vi.2022, leg. Dan-Chen Zhu ( DALU). PARATY- PES: 10 JJ 10 ♀♀ ( CN 22Piskjfs002–021), same data ( DALU).

Diagnosis. This new species can be differentiated from the other members of this group by the combination of the following characters: 1) pleura and coxae greatly melanized (vs. mostly light grayish or yellowish brown) ( Figs 47, 207); in males, 2) gonostyli with basal lobe straight along basal margin and arched in caudal margin ( Fig. 48); 3) ventral valves of aedeagus bilobed, with inner lobe longer than lateral lobe ( Fig. 50); 4) dorsal processes of aedeagus greatly constricted and stalk-like in basal 1/3, and subtriangularly enlarged in distal 2/3 ( Fig. 52); 5) hamulus of aedeagus greatly projecting ventrad ( Fig. 51); in females, 6) laterotergites IX broad with longitudinal wrinkle ( Fig. 53); and 7) medigynium with slender posterior arms greatly convergent and longer than main plate, and apodemes of axis greatly exceeding main plate and shortly but widely divergent at base ( Fig. 54).

Measurements (mm). Male (n = 11): AtL 9.0–10.0, AbL 8.9–9.6, BdL 12.0–13.2, FL 11.3–12.0, FW 3.0–3.1, HL 10.2–11.0, HW 2.9–3.0. Female (n = 10): AtL 9.2–10.5, AbL 6.5–7.0, BdL 10.0–10.6, FL 12.5–13.2, FW 3.0–3.2, HL 11.0–12.1, HW 2.9–3.1.

Etymology. Named after the type locality, Jinfo Mountain (Jinfo Shan in Chinese). Noun in apposition.

Distribution. China: Chongqing: Jinfo Mountain ( Fig. 212).