Filchneria shobhaae ( Singh & Ghosh, 1969 ) Teslenko, Valentina A. & Palatov, Dmitry M., 2023

Teslenko, Valentina A. & Palatov, Dmitry M., 2023, Redescription of a few Filchneria Klapálek, 1908 (Plecoptera, Perlodidae) species on the type and fresh material, Zootaxa 5277 (2), pp. 287-312 : 309

Zhiltzovaia amabilis ( Jewett, 1958)

= Filchneria shobhaae ( Singh & Ghosh, 1969) syn. nov.

Fig. 84

Singh & Ghosh, 1969: 134–135, fig. 1 ( Perlodes shobhaae ). Holotype female and paratypes 10 females deposited in the National Zoological collection of Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta; Zwick, 1973:230 ( Filchneria shobhaae ); Chandra et al. 2019: 229 ( Filchneria shobhaae ).

Remarks. The redescription of Zhiltzovaia amabilis ( Jewett, 1958) , based on type and new material collected from the streams of Pamir ( Tajikistan) and the northwestern Himalaya, including northern India ( Teslenko & Palatov 2020) agrees well with the original relatively brief description of the female of Filchneria shobhaae by Singh & Ghosh (1969). Taking into account the remarkable shape of the female subgenital plate ( Fig. 84 ), the color pattern of the head, pronotum, legs, cerci, and the proximity of the type localities of F. shobhaae with recent records of Z. amabilis in the basin of the same Alaknanda River, in the state Unttarakhaand, India, and an identical time of emerging, we believe the species are considered conspecific. It also follows that F. shobhaae belongs to the genus Zhiltzovaia Özdikmen, 2008 . We propose to transfer Filchneria shobhaae to genus Zhiltzovaia and place F. shobhaae as a junior synonym of Zhiltzovaia amabilis ( Jewett, 1958) syn. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 84. Published illustrations of subgenital plate of Zhiltzovaia amabilis (Jewett, 1958) syn. nov. (after Singh & Ghosh 1969, and Teslenko & Palatov 2020).