Panorpa meihuashana Wang, 2024

Wang, Ji-Shen & Zhao, Can-Jun, 2024, Taxonomy of the Panorpa issikiana species group, with descriptions of twenty new species (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 64 (1), pp. 79-106 : 93

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.37520/aemnp.2024.007

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12519784

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scientific name

Panorpa meihuashana Wang
status

sp. nov.

Panorpa meihuashana Wang sp. nov.

( Figs 96–106 View Figs 96–106 )

Type material. HOLOTYPE: J ( CN22 Piskmhs001), CHINA: GUIZHOU: Liupanshui City, Meihua (plum blossom) Mountain , 26°38′10″N, 104°44′05″E, 2440 m, 12.vii–28.viii.2022, leg. Gui-Qiang Huang by Malaise trap ( DALU) GoogleMaps . PARATYPES: 10 JJ 10 ♀♀ ( CN 22Piskmhs002–021), same data ( DALU).

Diagnosis. This new species can be differentiated from the other members of this group by the combination of the following characters: in males, 1) gonocoxal processes present posterior to pheromone glands ( Fig. 99 View Figs 96–106 ); 2) gonostyli greatly enlarged at base with short and acute basal lobe ( Fig. 100 View Figs 96–106 ); 3) dorsal processes of aedeagus with a wide median cleft ( Fig. 104 View Figs 96–106 ); in females, 4) wing markings represented by dense pterostigmal band extending from pterostigma to R 5 ( Fig. 97 View Figs 96–106 ); 5) subgenital plate with apical prominence sclerotized as other parts and lacking terminal emargination ( Fig. 105 View Figs 96–106 ); 6) laterotergites IX minute ( Fig. 105 View Figs 96–106 ); and 7) medigynium with apodemes of axis only slightly extending beyond main plate and slightly divergent ( Fig. 106 View Figs 96–106 ).

Measurements (mm). Male (n = 11): AtL 11.2–11.6, AbL 10.2–11.0, BdL 14.0–14.5, FL 12.2–12.6, FW 3.0–3.1, HL 11.0–11.4, HW 2.9–3.0. Female (n = 10): AtL 13.0–13.5, AbL 8.0–9.0, BdL 11.0–12.6, FL 13.0–13.5, FW 3.0–3.2, HL 12.0–12.2, HW 2.9–3.0.

Etymology. Named after the type locality, Meihua Mountain (Meihua Shan in Chinese). Adjective.

Distribution. China: Guizhou: Liupanshui: Meihua Mountain ( Fig. 212 View Fig ).

CN

Wellcome Collection of Bacteria, Burroughs Wellcome Research Laboratories

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Mecoptera

Family

Panorpidae

Genus

Panorpa

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