identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
D67F813948BF5743B2B5BB11BAAF26F6.text	D67F813948BF5743B2B5BB11BAAF26F6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Rhopalopsole gibba Yang & Du 2025	<div><p>Rhopalopsole gibba Yang &amp; Du sp. nov.</p><p>Description.</p><p>Male. Body length 5.7–5.9 mm. Forewing length 5.4–5.5 mm, hindwing length 4.2–4.3 mm. Head dark brown, wider than pronotum; ocelli pale brown; antennae and palpi light brown. Pronotum brown, quadrate. Legs brown. Wings hyaline and veins light brown (Fig. 1).</p><p>Tergum 9 mostly sclerotized, somewhat less so on median circular area with two strong sclerotized marks. Sternum 9 basally with subcircular vesicle bearing dense hairs, apically with a comparatively longer subgenital plate. Tergum 10 bearing a large central plate covered laterally with macrotrichia and a mammillary process on both sides; middle strongly sclerotized part of the central plate with small round field of knobs. Transverse plates nearly triangular and less hairy with some seta. Lateral projections of tergum 10 long and sinuous. Epiproct thick at base, not tapering appreciably along its length ending in a downcast point. Subanal lobes large, narrow at base expanding distally, then narrowing to end. Cercus hairy and upcurved, with a small spine (Fig. 2).</p><p>Female. Unknown.</p><p>Egg and nymph. Unknown.</p><p>Type materials.</p><p>Holotype: • ♂, China: Anhui Province, Xuancheng City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=119.10833&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.89" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 119.10833/lat 30.89)">Yaocun town</a>, alt. 726 m, 30°53'24"N, 119°6'30"E, 2024-VI-13, leg. Huo Qing-bo and Zeng Liang-liang (Fig. 3) . Paratypes: • 4 ♂♂, same data as holotype .</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species name refers to the central plate with a small round field of gibba at the middle of the tergum 10.</p><p>Diagnosis and remarks.</p><p>The new species, Rhopalopsole gibba, is similar to members of the R. dentata group (Sivec et al. 2008), particularly Rhopalopsole dicondylica Yang &amp; Du, 2021 . The males share the similar shape of epiproct and the shape of the subanal lobes. In R. gibba, the cercus is hairy and upcurved, with a small spine and tergum 10 bears a large central plate covered laterally with macrotrichia and there is a mammillary process on both sides; the middle strongly sclerotized part of the central plate with small round field of knobs. However, in R. dicondylica, the cerci lack spines and the hind border of tergum 10 bears a large central plate covered laterally with microtrichia, and there is a mammillary process on both sides; the middle poorly sclerotized part of the central plate is triangular and rounded apically (Fig. 2).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D67F813948BF5743B2B5BB11BAAF26F6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Yang, Xiao;Du, Yu-Zhou	Yang, Xiao, Du, Yu-Zhou (2025): A new species of Rhopalopsole (Insecta, Plecoptera, Leuctridae) from the Anhui Province of China and phylogeny of Leuctridae based on mitochondrial genomes. ZooKeys 1244: 147-158, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1244.137740
