Nipponeurorthus damingshanicus 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 : 85

Nipponeurorthus damingshanicus Liu, H. Aspoeck & U. Aspoeck, 2014 Figs 4c; 8 a–f; 16

Nipponeurorthus damingshanicus Liu, H. Aspöck & U. Aspöck, 2014: 225 (odescr, key, figs: wings, gs male, female, distrmap).

Type locality.

China (Guangxi: Mt. Damingshan).

Male.

Body length 4.5 mm; forewing length 7.7 mm, hindwing length 7.1 mm.

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

Thorax yellow. Legs yellow; coxae, trochanter and femora slightly paler. Wings slightly yellowish brown, with pterostigmatic areas creamy yellow; 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, dorsally largely tinged with pale reddish brown. Gonocoxite 9 robust on proximal half and strongly incurved on distal half, with a small hairy tubercle on inner surface; gonostylus 9 terminally flattened and bearing a spinous lobe. Ectoproct broad, directed posteroventrad, and concaved medially on posterior margin, with median portion slightly domed dorsad in lateral view, and with posterolateral corner protruding into a digitiform process. Complex of gonocoxites + gonostyli + gonapophyses 10 proximally broad, bearing a roundly tapered dorsal lobe and slender ventral lobe, distally with a long and blade-like projection; distal projections crossing each other at mid-length. Gonocoxite 11 not visible; gonostyli 11 present as posteriorly bifurcated sclerite.

Female.

Body length 5.3-5.6 mm; forewing length 8.1-8.2 mm, hindwing length 7.1-7.3 mm.

Fused gonocoxites 8 about twice as long as tergite 8, flatly and roundly plate-like, with posterior portion feebly sclerotized. Gonapophyses 8 subtriangular, largely covered by gonocoxite 8, lateral margins distinctly sclerotized. Bursa copulatrix comprising a large and arcuate sclerotized sclerite, which is nearly as long as gonocoxite 8.

Specimens examined and records published.

Supplementary material 1. Holotype male (by original designation): "CHINA, Guangxi, Wuming, Mt. Damingshan [23°29'N, 108°26'E, 1257 m], 25.V.2011, Tingting Zhang" (CAU).

Biology and ecology.

Adults have been taken in May. The known vertical distribution is 1257 m. The larva is unknown.

Distribution.

China (Guangxi).