Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007

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 : 244-245

Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007

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Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007: 451 , fig. 15.

Emended diagnosis. This species is previously known from the vague description and illustrations provided by Zhou & Zhou (2007). Herein, the diagnosis is emended based on the new materials: 1) in forewings, apical band broad with large hyaline spot along apical cross-veins, pterostigmal band with complete basal and apical branches, marginal spot and basal spot present, basal band broad, entire; 2) male hypovalves slender and longer than stalk of hypandrium, and slightly broaden at distal half; 3) dorsal processes of male aedeagus with middle process at ventral side; and 4) posterior arms of female medigynium reduced, and apodemes greatly divergent.

Materials examined. CHINA: Guizhou: 3♂ 3♀ (CN20Pa00086–CN20Pa00091), Dewang, southwestern slope of Mt. Fanjing , 20.xi.2019, leg. Zheng-Kun Hu.

Distribution. CHINA: Guizhou (Mts Fanjing and Leigong) ( 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.

FIGURE 3. Panorpa furcata Zhou & Zhou, 2007. A, C–F. Male; B, G & H. Female. A & B. Habitus, dorsal view; C. Abdomen, left-lateral view; D & E. Genital bulb, dorsal and ventral views, respectively; F. Aedeagal complex, ventral view; G. Subgenital plate, ventral view; H. Medigynium, ventral view.