Styloperla wui 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 : 131

Styloperla wui Chao, 1947

Styloperla wui: Chao, 1947: 93 ; Illies, 1966: 19; Zhao, 1982: 32; Uchida & Isobe, 1989: 160; Stark & Sivec, 2007: 15 ; Yang & Li, 2018: 55.

Materials examined: The same collections from Fujian recorded in Zhao (2019); 3 males, 2 females ( ICYZU), China, Anhui Province, Huangshan City, Mt. Huangshan , “the Valley of Wild Monkeys”, 597 m, 30.086530 N, 118.141606 E, 2020- VI, leg. Yu Lei; 1 male ( ICYZU), China, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou City, Mt. Tianmu , Puwei Garden, No. 6417, 2018-VII-21 , collector unknown, specimen provided by Chen Xue-Xin (Zhejiang University).

Distribution: Anhui (new provincial record), Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Zhejiang.

Remarks: The male and female habitus are shown in Fig. 9 , and the typical abdominal morphology of both genders is depicted in Figs. 10A–D . The long process of the basal cercal segment varies from straight and pointed apically to curved and flat; the subapical spine on the long process varies in distance from the apex ( Figs. 11A–D ).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Styloperla wui from Anhui, male and female habitus.

FIGURE 10. Styloperla wui from Anhui, terminalia of adult, dorsal and ventral view. A–B: male; C–D: female.

FIGURE 11. Styloperla wui from Anhui (A–C) and Fujian (D), male right cercus from different individuals.