Zelandoperlinae McLellan 1977

Mclellan, Ian, Miserendino, María Laura & Hollmann, María Eugenia Teresa, 2006, redescription of Notoperlopsis femina Illies, Zootaxa 1140, pp. 53-68 : 62

Subfamily Zelandoperlinae McLellan 1977

Illies (1963) remarked that Notoperlopsis resembled Megaleptoperla from New Zealand and suggested that the then missing male would have genitalia like the males of that genus. He was correct for there are common features. In both, the posterior sclerite is short, peglike and situated within the posterior of the central sclerite. Their epiprocts are wide at base and well tapered to a small tip and the ventral margin from tip of ventral hook to base is straight (unusual in other genera). The paraprocts are long, curved with rounded tips and a similar membranous part posteriorly. The female genitalia are also similar. The wing venation and mottled forewing colouration is the same. Both lack tibial spurs. The larvae of Megaleptoperla ( McLellan 1966) share a number of characteristics with the larva of Notoperlopsis . These include the general body shape and colouration, lack of tibial spurs, trapezoid subanal lobes (although in Megaleptoperla the inner angle is spinate), a pulsating anal gill rosette of many filaments and thickly based cerci which taper to narrow apices. Noting these common characters McLellan (1977) transferred Notoperlopsis to the tribe Megaleptoperlini in the subfamily Zelandoperlinae McLellan.