Rhopalopsole flata Yang & Yang, 1995

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 flata Yang & Yang, 1995

Rhopalopsole flata : Yang and Yang (1995): 61.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yang Yu-Ben (ICYZU); individualCount: 3; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; Taxon : scientificName: Rhopalopsole flata Yang & Yang, 1995; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Plecoptera ; family: leuctridae; taxonRank: species; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : continent: Asia ; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Fujian; locality: Wuyi Mountains (Matouyan) ; minimumElevationInMeters: 303; verbatimLatitude: 27°39′33″N,; verbatimLongitude: 117°57′50″E; Identification: identifiedBy: Yang Yu-ben & Du Yu-Zhou; Event: year: 2021; month: 3; day: 10; verbatimEventDate: 10-03-2021; Record Level: language: En; institutionCode: ICYZU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen .

Description

Diagnosis and remarks

The report of this species is a new distribution record to Wuyi Mountains. Head brown, slightly wider than pronotum; compound eyes dark brown; antennae and mouth-parts brown (Fig. 9 A). This species can be easily distinguished by the epiproct almost as wide as the central plate of tergum 10 (Fig. 9 B). However, the hind margin of tergum 9 strongly sclerotized (Fig. 9 B), this characteristic is not consistent with original descriptions; we think this variation should be the interspecific difference.

Type locality

China, Zhejiang Province (Baishanzu Mountain).

Distribution

China (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian).

Figures

Figure 9. Rhopalopsole flata Yang & Yang, 1995. A Male head and pronotum, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, dorsal view; C Male terminalia, lateral view; D Male terminalia, ventral view.