Panorpa parallela Wang & Hua, 2016

Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, Zootaxa 4981 (2), pp. 241-274 : 245

Panorpa parallela Wang & Hua, 2016

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Panorpa parallela Wang & Hua, 2016: 156 , figs 4B, 5–7; id., 2018: 293, figs 3-146-1 & 2.

Emended diagnosis. 1) Wings lacking any markings; 2) male stalk of hypandrium narrow and longer than divergent hypovalves; 3) male parameres elongate stick-like with apexes slightly curved inwards, and small subbasal projection on dorsal side; and 4) female medigynium with triangular projection at apex of main plate between posterior arms.

Materials examined. CHINA: Yunnan: 1♂ 1♀ (CN20Pa00023, CN20Pa00024), Mt. Tangli , 2560 m, 24°02’56’’ N, 99°13’56’’ E, 29.vii.2020, leg. Ji-Shen Wang.

Distribution. CHINA: Yunnan (Mts Daxue and Tangli) ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Members of the Panorpa guttata group in the field. A. Panorpa guttata Navás, 1908, female; B. Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang, 1981, male; C. Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007, male (photographed by Zheng-Kun Hu); D. Panorpa liaoi Zhou & Zhou, 2007, male; E. Panorpa kunmingensis Fu & Hua, 2009, male; F. Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016, male; G. Panorpa parallela Wang & Hua, 2016, female.

FIGURE 2. Distribution of 23 species in the Panorpa guttata group.