Protonemura lupina Vinçon & Reding, 2021

Vinçon, Gilles, Launay, Bertrand & Reding, Jean-Paul G., 2021, Two new species of Protonemura Kempny, 1898 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from Southern France, Zootaxa 5061 (3), pp. 432-450 : 433

Protonemura lupina Vinçon & Reding sp. n.

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Morphological diagnosis. A medium-sized Protonemura species. Body length of males 5–7 mm (n = 30), females 7–9 mm (n = 35). Males and females macropterous. General color light reddish-brown; head dark; antennae and legs light brown-colored. Forewings smoky brown. Cervical gills short, without pre-apical constriction (cf. Fig. 30). Sclerotized base of median lobe of the paraprocts of adult males circular in shape, in ventral and ¾ dorso-ventral views (Figs. 5–7). Insertion point of the sclerotized stem located medially on the side of the median lobe of the paraprocts (Figs. 5–7). Subgenital plate of adult females narrow and formed by a curved sclerotized band; vaginal lobes well visible at the lower edges of the subgenital plate (Fig. 9).

Type material. Holotype male: FRANCE: Alpes-Maritimes , Loup Valley , Loup tributary, road to Courmes, big spring, 600 m, 43.753N, 7.005E, 01.04.2017, leg. G. Vinçon ( MZL, catalogue number: GBIFCH00660528).

Paratypes: same locality and date, 1♂, 1♀, leg G. Vinçon ( MZL, catalogue number: GBIFCH00660529) .