Paraleuctra orientalis (Chu, 1928)

Yang, Yu-Ben, Zhu, Bin-Qing, Rehman, Abdur & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2022, A review of Leuctridae (Insecta, Plecoptera) in Wuyi Mountains, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 86735-86735 : 86735

Paraleuctra orientalis (Chu, 1928)

Paraleuctra orientalis Paraleuctra Hanson (1941)

Leuctra orientalis : Chu (1928): 87.

Rhopalopsole orientalis : Illies (1966): 118.

Paraleuctra orientalis : Zwick (1973): 410.

Paraleuctra orientalis Paraleuctra sinica Yang and Du (2022b)

Paraleuctra orientalis Paraleuctra tianmushana Yang and Du (2022b)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yang Yu-Ben; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; Taxon : scientificName: Paraleuctra orientalis Chu , 1928; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; taxonRank: species; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Fujian Province; locality: Wuyi Mountains (Matouyan) ; minimumElevationInMeters: 303; verbatimLatitude: 27°39′33″N,; verbatimLongitude: 117°57′50″E; Identification: identifiedBy: Yang Yu-Ben & Du Yu-Zhou; Event: year: 2021; month: 3; day: 10; verbatimEventDate: 10-03-2021; Record Level: language: En; institutionCode: ICYZU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen .

Description

Diagnosis and remarks

The specimens we collected have the typical terminalia of P. orientalis , cerci somewhat sclerotized, strongly forked into two sharp prongs; upper prong longer than lower prong; a spine present near base of upper prong, projecting backwards, so we define them as P. orientalis (Fig. 1 ). The heads of the specimens have strongly sclerotized parts on the ocelli area and the hind margin (Fig. 1 A). As the colour and sclerotized patterns bear some variations with the original descriptions, we think the variations are intraspecific.

Type locality

China, Zhejiang Province (Lin-an).

Distribution

China (Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunan, Gansu); Russia (Siberia).

Figures

Figure 1. Paraleuctra orientalis (Chu, 1928). A Male head and pronotum, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, dorsal view; C Male terminalia, lateral view; D Male terminalia, ventral view.