Kiotina Klapálek

Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2008, Systematic Notes On Kiotina Klapálek And Hemacroneuria Enderlein (Plecoptera: Perlidae), With Description Of Four New Species, Illiesia 4 (17), pp. 161-175 : 162

Kiotina Klapálek

Acroneuria (Kiotina) Klapálek, 1907:8 . Type species, Acroneuria (Kiotina) pictetii Klapálek

Schistoperla Banks, 1937:271 . Type species, Schistoperla collaris Banks , Synonymy by Uchida (1990)

Kiotina remains a poorly known, seldom collected stonefly genus of the Orient and eastern Palearctic despite the efforts of Kawai (1967, 1968a, 1968b) and Kawai & Isobe (1979). The group was proposed by Klapálek (1907) as a subgenus of Acroneuria , but later ( Klapálek 1913) it was treated as a valid genus and within three years ( Klapálek 1916), four species were included. Illies (1966) and Zwick (1973a) list nine species in the genus but Zwick (1973b) removed Hemacroneuria violacea , where it had been placed by Klapálek (1916), to Acroneuria , and at least one other species, K. kelloggi Wu & Claassen , should be excluded based on the figures of the female subgenital plate ( Wu & Claassen 1934). Wu (1938)

and Banks (1939) also described three species in genus Atoperla (now a synonym of Perlinella ) which Du et al. (1999) include in Kiotina , and we add two previously undescribed species, K. bifurcata and K. delicata to the genus. Uchida (1990) considered Schistoperla as a junior synonym of Kiotina , and apparently Du et al. (1999) agreed in this placement with which we also concur, thus adding two species, K. collaris (Banks) and K. decorata (Zwick) , to the genus. The recorded distribution of the genus after the synonymy of Schistoperla is recognized, and the records below are listed, includes Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, South Korea, North Korea and mainland China. ( Du et al. 1999; Kawai 1968a, 1968b; Uchida 1990; Zwick 1973c).

Species list: 1) bifurcata sp. n., 2) chekiangensis ( Wu, 1938) , 3) chiangi ( Banks, 1939) . 4) collaris ( Banks, 1937) , 5) decorata ( Zwick, 1973c) , 6) delicata sp. n., 7) lugubris ( McLachlan, 1875) , 8) nigra ( Wu, 1938) , 9) pictetii ( Klapálek, 1907) , 10) quadrituberculata Wu, 1948 , 11) resplendens Banks, 1939 , 12) riukiuensis Ueno, 1938 , 13) spatulata Wu, 1948 , 14) suzukii Okamoto, 1912 .