Rhopalopsole wuyishanensis Yang & Du, 2021

Yang, Yu-Ben, Zhu, Bin-Qing, Rehman, Abdur & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2022, A review of Leuctridae (Insecta, Plecoptera) in Wuyi Mountains, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 86735-86735 : 86735

Rhopalopsole wuyishanensis Yang & Du, 2021

Rhopalopsole wuyishanensis : Yang et al. (2021): 144-145.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Huo Qing-Bo and Zhu Bin-Qing (ICYZU); individualCount: 6; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; Taxon : scientificName: Rhopalopsole wuyishanensis Yang & Du, 2021; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; taxonRank: species; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : continent: Asia ; country: China; stateProvince: Fujian; locality: Wuyi Mountains ; minimumElevationInMeters: 726; verbatimLatitude: 27°44′46″N; verbatimLongitude: 27°44′46″N; Identification: identifiedBy: Yang Yu-Ben & Du Yu-Zhou; Event: year: 2021; month: 4; day: 13; verbatimEventDate: 13-04-2021; Record Level: language: En; institutionCode: ICYZU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen .

Description

Diagnosis and remarks

Recently described species from Wuyi Mountains of Fujian Province. Head brown, wider than pronotum; ocelli pale brown; antennae and palpi light brown. Pronotum brown (Fig. 10 A). Tergum 10 bearing a large central plate covered with broad sensilla basiconica patch in the lower half and somewhat less sclerotized in the upper half. Lateral projections of tergum 10 plate-like, extending backwards with rectangular-shaped process (Fig. 10 ).

Type locality

China, Fujian Province (Wuyi Mountains).

Distribution

China (Fujian).

Figures

Figure 10. Rhopalopsole wuyishanensis Yang & Du, 2021. A Male head and pronotum, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, dorsal view; C Male terminalia, lateral view; D Male terminalia, ventral view. Modified from Yang et al. (2021).