Berotha zhejiangana Yang & Liu, 1995

Li, Di, Aspöck, Horst, Aspöck, Ulrike & Liu, Xingyue, 2018, A review of the beaded lacewings (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from China, Zootaxa 4500 (2), pp. 235-257 : 242-243

Berotha zhejiangana Yang & Liu, 1995

Berotha zhejiangana Yang & Liu, 1995: 280 . Type locality: China (Zhejiang: Mt. Baishanzu ).

Diagnosis. This species is characterized by the male tergum 9 + ectoprocts in lateral view with posterodorsal portion nearly right-angled, and with posteroventral portion arcuately convex; the complex of fused gonocoxites, gonapophyses and gonostyli 10 with short bristle-bow, reaching to segment 9 anteriorly.

Description. Male. Body length 7.0–9.0 mm; forewing length 11.0 mm, hindwing length 10.0 mm.

Head generally yellowish brown with brown spots and brown setae; setae longer ventrally. Compound eyes blackish brown. Antennae long, scape with long setae, length-width ratio approximately 3:1.

Prothorax generally yellowish, with dense brown spots and setae dorsally. Pronotum with dense blackish setae ventrally. Legs yellowish brown. Forewing falcate on apex, slightly smoky yellow; pterostigma reddish brown. Longitudinal veins pale yellow, interrupted by many brownish spots; crossveins brown. Hindwing slightly paler than forewing, with brown spots only on pterostigma and some branching points of longitudinal veins.

Abdomen pale brown dorsally and yellowish brown ventrally.

Male genitalia. Tergum 9 + ectoprocts in lateral view with posterodorsal portion nearly right-angled and posteroventral portion arcuately convex. Complex of fused gonocoxites, gonapophyses and gonostyli 10 (= paramere-mediuncus complex) with a basal sclerite and a short bow formed by bundled bristles, reaching to segment 9 anteriorly. Hypandrium internum extremely small.

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. China (Zhejiang).

Remarks. The primary types of this species cannot be found currently. No additional specimens of this species were available for our study. The above description was made according to the original description in Yang & Liu (1995).