Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016

Wang, Ji-Shen & Gong, You-Jing, 2021, Taxonomy of the Panorpaguttata group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), withdescriptions of fourteen new species from China, Zootaxa 4981 (2), pp. 241-274 : 246

Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016

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Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016: 153 , figs 1–3, 4A; id., 2018: 301, figs 3-152-1 & 2.

Emended diagnosis. 1) Head with M-shaped black spot on occiput and subpentagonal black spot enclosing ocellar triangle; 2) wings with greatly reduced pterostigmal band reduced to spots, and lacking other markings; in males, 3) stalk of hypandrium greatly reduced; 4) parameres bifurcated and 3-shaped, with basal branch stretching towards base of genital bulb; 5) aedeagus columnar with pair of dorsal processes extending beyond apex of gonocoxites; in females, 6) A9 greatly elongated, approximately twice as long as A8, with vase-shaped subgenital plate; 7) medigynium with axis entirely concealed in main plate, and main plate with pair of anterior arms.

Materials examined. CHINA: Yunnan: 3♂ 2♀ (CN20Pa00025– CN20Pa00029), Mt.Tangli , 2560 m, 24°02’56’’ N, 99°13’56’’ E, 29.vii.2020, leg. Ji-Shen Wang.

Distribution. CHINA: Yunnan (Mts Daxue and Tangli) ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Members of the Panorpa guttata group in the field. A. Panorpa guttata Navás, 1908, female; B. Panorpa decolorata Chou & Wang, 1981, male; C. Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007, male (photographed by Zheng-Kun Hu); D. Panorpa liaoi Zhou & Zhou, 2007, male; E. Panorpa kunmingensis Fu & Hua, 2009, male; F. Panorpa reflexa Wang & Hua, 2016, male; G. Panorpa parallela Wang & Hua, 2016, female.

FIGURE 2. Distribution of 23 species in the Panorpa guttata group.