Panorpa dimaluo 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 : 86-87

Panorpa dimaluo Wang sp. nov.

( Figs 25–34)

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J ( CN21 Piskdml001), CHINA: YUNNAN: Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Gongshan County, Kongque (Peacock) Mountain , near Dimaluo River , 28°03′28″N, 98°43′56″E, 2750 m, 13.vii.2021, leg. Ji-Shen Wang ( DALU) . PARATYPES: 1 J ( CN 21Piskdml002), same data except 15.vii.2021; 1 ♀ ( CN 23Piskdml001), same locality, 15.viii.2023, leg. Chun-Mei Liao & Ji-Shen Wang ( DALU).

Diagnosis. This new species can be differentiated from the other members of this group by the combination of the following characters: in males, 1) parameres with dorsal branch extending beyond basal lobe of gonostyli, and crossed posterior to ventral valves of aedeagus ( Figs 30–32); 2) dorsal processes divergent basally and forming deep median cleft, with acute and elongated apices slightly convergent ( Fig. 32); 3) dorsal processes greatly projecting dorsad subbasally ( Fig. 31); in females, 4) laterotergites IX small and subacute apically ( Fig. 33); and 5) medigynium with broad main plate, slender posterior arms shorter than main plate, and apodemes of axis extending beyond main plate and widely divergent ( Fig. 34).

Measurements (mm). Male (n = 2): AtL 10.0–10.2, AbL 8.6–8.8, BdL 12.0–12.5, FL 12.4–12.5, FW 3.0, HL 11.2–11.5, HW 2.9. Female (n = 1): AtL 10.3, AbL 7.4, BdL 11.7, FL 13.8, FW 3.2, HL 11.0, HW 3.1.

Etymology. Named after the type locality, Dimaluo River. Noun in apposition.

Distribution. China: Yunnan: Gongshan: Kongque Mountain ( Fig. 212).