Homoplectra japonica ( Banks 1906 ) Nozaki, 2021

Nozaki, Takao, 2021, The genus Diplectrona Westwood (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) in the Japanese main islands, Zootaxa 5082 (3), pp. 245-258 : 254

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.3.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:99F75ED7-13CE-402E-8621-8F8534C8C08E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5789481

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/854F87B5-FFF3-6814-FF0A-BAF9FE58AEFF

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scientific name

Homoplectra japonica ( Banks 1906 )
status

comb. nov.

Homoplectra japonica ( Banks 1906) , New combination.

( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 5–6. 5 )

Arctopsyche japonica Banks 1906 , 111, 113, color pattern of forewing.

Specimens examined. Kyushu, Fukuoka: 11 males, Mt. Hiko-san, Soeda-machi , 19.v.1993, N. Kuhara (KuN) .

Remarks. Banks (1906) described Arctopsyche japonica based on specimens collected from Hikosan, Buzen (now Fukuoka, Kyushu), and a figure of distinct yellow markings of the left forewing was provided. He also recorded this species from Gifu, central Honshu, but precise data were not provided ( Banks 1906). Ulmer (1907) transferred this species to the genus Diplectrona based on examination of males collected from Gifu, which have similar markings to the illustration by Banks (1906). However, according to photographs of a syntype male collected from Hikosan, and deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University ( Figs 5A–5D View FIGURES 5–6. 5 : photographed by C. W. Farnum), the male bears a club-like process on each anterolateral corner of abdominal sternum V (s.V) (marked with an arrow in Fig. 5B View FIGURES 5–6. 5 ). Furthermore, in male genitalia ( Fig. 5C View FIGURES 5–6. 5 ), each inferior appendage (i.a.) is onesegmented, and the large phallic apparatus (ph.) bears long spine-like processes. Males collected from the same area as the syntype male was collected have the same genitalic morphology ( Fig. 5E View FIGURES 5–6. 5 ). This species therefore belongs to the genus Homoplectra , and not to Diplectrona .

After the publication by Banks (1906), many authors recorded D. japonica based on the characteristic markings of the forewings; however, Kawase & Morita (2014) noted that multiple species have this character. This taxonomic problem warrants future work.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Trichoptera

Family

Hydropsychidae

Genus

Homoplectra

Loc

Homoplectra japonica ( Banks 1906 )

Nozaki, Takao 2021
2021
Loc

Arctopsyche japonica

Banks 1906
1906
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