identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
E21B7336FFA5FFA5E6669083FAD7F94B.text	E21B7336FFA5FFA5E6669083FAD7F94B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhopalopsole shennongjia Yang & Du 2025	<div><p>2.1.1.  Rhopalopsole shennongjia Yang &amp; Du,  sp. nov.</p><p>2.1.1.1. Male. Body length: 6.2–6.3 mm, forewings length: 6.6–6.8 mm, and hindwings length: 4.1–4.3 mm. Head dark brown; wider than pronotum; ocelli pale brown; antennae and palpi light brown; pronotum brown, quadrate, with all angles rounded; legs dark brown; and wings hyaline with veins light brown (Figure 1).</p><p>Tergum 9 weakly sclerotized, with a wide, incised anterior margin that is more poorly sclerotized medially with a distinct transverse ridge medially in lateral view. Sternum 9 basally long, 1X longer than width, with subcircular vesicle bearing dense hairs. Tergum 10 bearing a big central plate that is evenly sclerotized. Transverse plates roughly oval with apical setae. Lateral projections of tergum 10 originating as a rounded base and extending upwards and backwards in a short plate, ending in a forked process, with the lower point slightly larger. Epiproct short, not tapering appreciably along its course, ending in a shallow wavy process. Subanal lobes medium sized, narrow at base, expanding distally, and then narrowing to the end. Cercus hairy and upcurved, without spines (Figures 2 and 3).</p><p>2.1.1.2. Female. Subgenital plate, heavily sclerified, produced into a tongue-like extension with a rounded tip.</p><p>Sternum 8 with a pair of subtriangular plates is separated by a large membranous area (Figure 4).</p><p>2.1.1.3. Type of Materials.   Holotype: male, China: Hubei Province, Shennongjia Forestry District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=110.47916&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=31.396181" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 110.47916/lat 31.396181)">Muyu Town</a>, 787 m, 31.396181N, 110.479157E, 2024-IV-20, leg. Yang Xiao and Zhu Ya-Fei.  Paratypes: 2 males and 3 females, same data as holotype. The specimens are deposited in ICYZU .</p><p>2.1.1.4. Etymology. This new species is named after its type locality.</p><p>2.1.1.5. Diagnosis and Remarks.  Rhopalopsole shennongjia sp. nov. is a member of the  Rhopalopsole dentata Sivec and Harper, 2008, west group as proposed by Sivec, Harper, and Shimizu [14], with tergum 10 of the adult male possessing a central plate with lateral bars strongly sclerotized, lateral projections typically ending in a forked process, epiproct simple and thick, and subanal lobes typical of this group. The new species is very similar to  R. basinigra Yang &amp; Yang, 1995 . The males of  R. shennongjia sp. nov. and  R. basinigra share the similar shape of subanal lobes and the shape of the lateral projections of tergum 10. In  R. shennongjia, the epiproct is short, not tapering along its course; and the tergum 9 is weakly sclerotized, with a wide, incised anterior margin that is more poorly sclerotized medially. However, in  R. basinigra, the tergum 9 has a distinct sclerotized area in the center; the end of epiproct is hook like.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E21B7336FFA5FFA5E6669083FAD7F94B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Yang, Xiao;Du, Yu-Zhou	Yang, Xiao, Du, Yu-Zhou (2025): A New Species of Rhopalopsole (Plecoptera, Leuctridae) From Hubei Province, China, Based on Morphological and Molecular Data. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology (9910259) 2025 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.1155/psyc/9910259, URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/psyc/9910259
E21B7336FFA0FFA0E5D693AFFECCF900.text	E21B7336FFA0FFA0E5D693AFFECCF900.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang & Yang 1994	<div><p>2.1.2.  Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang &amp; Yang, 1994 .</p><p>Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang &amp; Yang, 1994 . Entomotaxonomia, 16 (3): 189.</p><p>Rhopalopsole emeishan Sivec &amp; Harper, 2008 . Scopolia, 64: 79–80.</p><p>2.1.2.1. Description. This species was well described by Yang &amp; Yang [44] (Figure 5) and was redescribed by Sivec, Harper, and Shimizu [14]. We provide color pictures of head and pronotum of the male adult and male terminalia for recognition of this species (Figures 6 and 7).</p><p>2.1.2.2. Material Examined.   Three males, China, Hubei Province,  Shennongjia Forestry District, 2024–IV–22, leg. Yang Xiao &amp; Zhu Ya-Fei (ICYZU)  .</p><p>2.1.2.3. Distribution. China, Hubei; Shaanxi. This species has previously only been reported in Shaanxi, China. This is the first record for this species in Hubei Province, China.</p><p>2.2. Molecular Data. The genetic distance analysis and phylogenetic analysis showed that the male and female specimens of the new species differed by only 0.0046 (0.46%), confirming their conspecificity (Table 2) (Figure 8).  Rhopalopsole hamata is the species whose genetic distance was closest to the new species, with interspecific distance being 0.0942 (9.42%). In addition, the genetic distance of all other species was more than 10% and is different from the new species.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E21B7336FFA0FFA0E5D693AFFECCF900	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Yang, Xiao;Du, Yu-Zhou	Yang, Xiao, Du, Yu-Zhou (2025): A New Species of Rhopalopsole (Plecoptera, Leuctridae) From Hubei Province, China, Based on Morphological and Molecular Data. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology (9910259) 2025 (1): 1-9, DOI: 10.1155/psyc/9910259, URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/psyc/9910259
