Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926

Chen, Zhi-Teng, 2020, The larvae of Rhopalopsole vespertilio Chen & Du (Plecoptera: Leuctridae) with biological notes on sympatric Nemoura nankinensis Wu (Plecoptera Nemouridae), Zootaxa 4767 (4), pp. 578-588 : 586-587

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4767.4.7

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3796637

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Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926
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Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926 View in CoL

Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 .

Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926 View in CoL . J. Sci. Arts., 5: 332; Wu, 1938. Plecopt. Sin., 182; Illies, 1966. Das Tierreich, 82: 208. Baumann, 1975. Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 211: 21; Yang, Li & Zhu, 2015. Fauna Sinica Insecta View in CoL , 58: 376; Chen & Du, 2017b. Zootaxa, 4254(2): 298; Chen & Du, 2017c. Illiesia, 13(10): 102; Yang & Li, 2018. Species Catalogue of China. Vol. 2. Animals, Insecta View in CoL (III), Plecoptera View in CoL 20; Chen, 2020. Zootaxa, in press.

Material examined. Forty-nine males, five females, four larvae, China: Jiangsu Province, Jurong City, Mt. Maoshan ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ), 31°47′15″N, 119°18′23″E, 160 m, 5 March 2020, leg. Zhi-Teng Chen (ICJUST).

Biological notes. Nemoura nankinensis and R. vespertilio were the only two stonefly species collected during our trip at Mt. Maoshan. Larvae of N. nankinensis inhabited leaf packs and also undersides of small stones ( Fig. 11A View FIGURE 11 ). The newly emerged male adults, typical of many nemourids, could be found on top of dry rocks ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 B–D). Apparently, males drummed by bending the abdomen and tapping rock surfaces ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 E–F). Adults and larvae of N. nankinensis were collected along most sections of the mainstream flowing from the peak of the mountain into the valley. This species occurred from rapid-flowing sections of the stream to areas where the stream became subterranean. Several adults were found even along a valley section with no flow and much submerged filamentous algae and macrophytes. Several years ago, this section of the stream was a fast flowing ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 G–H).

Acknowledgments

I am grateful to Prof. Yu-Zhou Du and Yangzhou University for teaching me the taxonomy of the Plecoptera . I am also grateful to Dr. Boris Kondratieff and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and manuscript improvement. This work is funded by the Start-up Funding of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology (1182931901).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Plecoptera

Family

Nemouridae

Genus

Nemoura

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Nemoura nankinensis Wu, 1926

Chen, Zhi-Teng 2020
2020
Loc

Nemoura nankinensis

Wu 1926
1926
Loc

Insecta

Linnaeus 1758
1758
Loc

Insecta

Linnaeus 1758
1758
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