Perlomyia levanidovae ( Zhiltzova, 1975 )

Murányi, Dávid, Jeon, Mi Jeong, Hwang, Jeong Mi & Seo, Hong Yul, 2014, Korean species of the genus Perlomyia Banks, 1906 (Plecoptera: Leuctridae), Zootaxa 3881 (2), pp. 145-154 : 146

Perlomyia levanidovae ( Zhiltzova, 1975)

( Figs. 16–18 , 33 )

Type locality: Russia, Primorsky krai, Barabasevka, Dakkelevskogo kluca.

Rhopalopsole levanidovae Zhiltzova, 1975 — Zhiltzova 1975: 225. (original description of the male and female). Perlomyia levanidovae ( Zhiltzova, 1975) — Zwick 1977: 112. (comb. n.); Zhiltzova 2003: 501. (monography); Teslenko & Zhiltzova 2009: 237 (key).

Literature data. Zwick (2010): South Korea, Chungbuk, Sangchon-Myeon, Dungeon-li near Doma Pass (North Chungcheong Province, Sangchon-myeon, Dunjeon-ri), 750m, 0 2– 26.05 .2006, leg. P. Tripotin: 1♂, 2♀.

New material. North Korea, North Pyongan Province, Hyangsan-gun, Myohyang Mts., swept along the way to Bulyongdae temple, 1000m, N40°00’ E126°15’, 22.05.1985 (loc. Korea.934), leg. András Vojnits, Lajos Zombori: 2♂.

Diagnosis. Male: Tergum IX deeply excavated posterio-medially, tergum X with a pair of mesolateral knobs; apex of sternum IX long. Epiproct simple, hook-shaped; cercus long, terminates in an apical spine. Female: Sternum VII rectangular, without any modification, not fused to sternum VIII. Median sclerites on sternum VIII are small, dark brown, rectangular; laterally they are connected to horseshoe-shaped lateral sclerites, a well-developed subgenital plate present posteriorly to the median sclerites.

Distribution and ecology. This spring species was known from the Primorsky area of Russia, northeastern China and from South Korea ( Fig. 33 ). New for North Korea.

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 24. Korean specimens of Perlomyia smithae Nelson & Hanson, 1973, P. levanidovae (Zhiltzova, 1975) and P. mahunkai (Zwick, 1973): 13 – 15: P. smithae; 16 – 18 P. levanidovae; 19 – 24: P. mahunkai — 13, 16, 19: male terminalia, ventral view; 14, 17, 20: male terminalia, lateral view; 15, 18, 21: male terminalia, dorsal view; 22: female terminalia, ventral view; 23: female sterna 7 – 8, ventral view; 24: female sterna 7 – 8, lateral view—scale 1 mm.

FIGURES 31 – 33. Distribution of Asian Perlomyia Banks, 1906 species — 31: known occurrences in Asia; 32 – 33: know occurrences in North and South Korea—symbols on Fig. 32: open circle: P. secunda; full circle: P. mahunkai; circle with central dot: P. mar tynov i. symbols on Fig. 33: open circle: P. kiritshenkoi, P. smithae, P. Ko 1 and P. K o 2; full circle: P. levanidovae; circle with central dot: P. Ko 1.