Nipponeurorthus furcatus Liu, H. Aspoeck & U. Aspoeck , 2014

Aspoeck, Ulrike, Aspoeck, Horst & Liu, Xingyue, 2017, The Nevrorthidae, mistaken at all times: phylogeny and review of present knowledge (Holometabola, Neuropterida, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 77-110 : 86

Nipponeurorthus furcatus Liu, H. Aspoeck & U. Aspoeck, 2014 Figs 4d; 10 a–c; 16

Nipponeurorthus furcatus Liu, H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck, 2014: 229 (odescr, key, figs: wings, gs male, distrmap).

Type locality.

China (Yunnan: Lvchun).

Male.

Body length 4.0 mm; forewing length 7.1-7.4 mm, hindwing length 6.5-6.9 mm.

Head yellow. Antennae yellow. Mouthparts yellow; mandibles with brownish tips.

Thorax yellow, with yellowish setae. Legs yellow throughout, with yellowish setae. Wings slightly yellowish brown, with pterostigmatic areas yellowish brown; forewing with distal margin brown, and with distinct brown markings on gradate crossveins as well as on 1r-rs; other less distinct brown markings present on distal branching points of most longitudinal veins; veins yellowish brown except for those in dark markings brown; hindwing much paler than forewing, with distal dark edging much shorter and paler than that on forewing; veins pale yellow, with 1r-rs and 2r-rs brown.

Abdomen yellow. Gonocoxite 9 robust on proximal half and strongly incurved on distal half, ventrally with an upcurved short lobe separated from the main body of gonocoxite 9; inner surface with a small hairy tubercle; gonostylus 9 terminally rounded and bearing a spinous lobe. Ectoproct broad, directed posteriad, and subtrapezoidal and slightly concaved on posterior margin in dorsal view. Complex of gonocoxites + gonostyli + gonapophyses 10 proximally robust, distally with a slenderly spinous projection, which laterally bears a feebly sclerotized flat lobe. Gonocoxite 11 present as a simple, transverse, sclerotized band; gonostyli 11 present as a posteriorly bifurcated sclerite. Hypandrium internum not visible.

Female.

Unknown.

Specimens examined and records published.

Supplementary material 1. Holotype male (by original designation): "CHINA, Yunnan, Lvchun, Qimaba, Dapingzhang [22°50'N, 102°13'E], 1600 m, 21.VII.2013, Yang Zhao" (CAU).

Biology and ecology.

Adults have been taken in July. The known vertical distribution is 1600 m. The larva is unknown.

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).