Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang, 1981

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 : 244

Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang, 1981

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Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang in Chou et al., 1981: 10, figs 38 & 39; Wang & Hua, 2018: 257, figs 3-120-1 & 2.

Emended diagnosis. 1) In forewings, apical band with large hyaline spot along apical cross-veins, pterostigmal band with fading apical branch and detached basal branch, basal band wide spot along hind margin; 2) male hypovalves shorter than stalk of hypandrium; 3) male paramere simple; and 4) main plate of female medigynium rounded.

Distribution. CHINA: Gansu, Hubei and Shaanxi ( 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.