Styloperla inae Chao, 1947

Huo, Qing-Bo, Zhao, Meng-Yuan, Du, Yu-Zhou, Murányi, Dávid, Zhu, Bin-Qing & Yu, Lei, 2023, The intraspecific morphological variability of Styloperla Wu, 1935 (Plecoptera: Styloperlidae), Zootaxa 5249 (1), pp. 125-137 : 126

Styloperla inae Chao, 1947

Styloperla inae: Chao, 1947: 93 ; Illies, 1966: 19; Zhao, 1982: 32; Uchida & Isobe, 1989: 158; Stark & Sivec, 2007: 12; Yang & Li, 2018: 55.

Materials examined: 5 males, 4 females, Fujian Province, Wuyishan City, Mount Wuyi (Wuyishan), on the way from Saiyan to Tongmu Village , 726 m, 27.746111 N, 117.674722 E, 2021-IV-13, leg. Huo Qing-Bo, Xiang Ya-Nan, Zhu Bin-Qing, Chen Zhi-Qiang; further specimens re-studied from Fujian and Guangdong were recorded in Zhao (2019).

Distribution: Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi.

Remarks: The male and female habitus is shown in Fig. 1 , and the typical abdominal morphology of both genders is depicted in Fig. 2A–D . The small lateral spines on the long process of the basal cercal segment vary in distance from the apex. In addition, cercal segments 2–4 bear different number of clusters of mid-dorsal spines ( Fig. 3 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Styloperla inae from Fujian, male and female habitus.

FIGURE 2. Styloperla inae from Fujian, terminalia of adult, dorsal and ventral view. A–B: male; C–D: female.

FIGURE 3. Styloperla inae from Fujian, male right cercus from different individuals, with basal cercal segments that vary in distance from the apex.