Kamimuria tuberosa Wu

Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2008, New Species Of Kamimuria Klapálek (Plecoptera: Perlidae) From Thailand And Vietnam, With Notes On Chinese Species, Illiesia 4 (12), pp. 110-138 : 136

Kamimuria tuberosa Wu

( Figs. 101-103 )

Kamimuria tuberosa Wu, 1973:117 . Holotype ♂ ( Academia Sinica , Institute of Zoology ), Omei Shan, Szechuan (Sichuan), China

Material examined. China: Sichuan Province, Shin Kai Si, Mt. Omei , 4400’, 18-20 August 1934, D.C. Graham, 1 ♂ (pinned USNM). Sichuan Province, Mt. Omei , 11000’, 21 July 1935, D.C. Graham, 1 ♂ ( USNM). Sichuan Province, Kwanshien , 2900’, 17 July 1938, D.C. Graham (1 ♂ pinned USNM). Sichuan Province, Kwanshien , 3000’, 22 December 1934, D.C. Graham, 1 ♂ ( USNM). Sichuan Province, Suifu , 1000’, 5 November 1929, accession number 108446, 1 ♂ ( USNM) .

Adult habitus. Color pattern obscured by specimen condition. Wu (1973) indicates K. tuberosa in his sample were dark brown with dark wings.

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Male. Forewing length 16-18 mm. Hemitergal lobes very slender and slightly upturned in lateral aspect ( Figs. 101-102 ). Tergum 9 with a median patch of sensilla basiconica and a much smaller patch sometimes present on tergum 8. Aedeagus with a small dorsobasal sclerite and a prominent pair of long curved spines located near the apical third; apex of aedeagus a slender, unarmed, membranous tube but subapical zone armed along ventral margin with multiple close-set rows of large triangular spines, and a second row of 4-5 lateral spines surrounding a field of microtrichia and small triangular spines; an additional patch of spines and microtrichia is located laterally and extends from proximal to a dorsal and a ventral bare lobe to apex of dorsal sclerite ( Fig. 103 ).

Female. Unknown.

Larva. Unknown.

Comments. Placement of these specimens as K. tuberosa is quite problematic since no less than five species with slender hemiterga have been named from Sichuan province and one of these, K. orthogonia Wu , was proposed from a population on Omei [Emei] Shan, type locality for K. tuberosa . This provisional identification will need verification from study of the holotype specimen, presumed to be in the Zoological Institute, Academia Sinica, Beijing. The Suifu specimen was previously identified as “ Perla simplex ” and the Mt. Omei specimen from 11000’ and the Kwanshien specimen from 3000’ were previously identified by S.G. Jewett, Jr. as “ Kamimuria magna ”.

Figures

Figs. 101-103. Kamimuria tuberosa adult structures. 101. Male terminalia, 102. Male right hemitergal lobe, lateral, 103. Aedeagus, lateral.