Alloperla teleckojensis Šámal, 1939

Li, Wenliang, Wang, Yingying, Wang, Ying & Li, Weihai, 2021, A new species of Suwallia Ricker, 1943 from Japan, and the identity of Alloperla teleckojensis Šámal, 1939 (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae), Zootaxa 5040 (4), pp. 575-581 : 578

Alloperla teleckojensis Šámal, 1939

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Alloperla teleckojensis Šámal, 1939 : Šámal 1939: 423. (original description of the female); Raušer 1968: 336. (report on loss of type).

Alloperla deminuta Zapekina-Dulkeit, 1970 : Zapekina-Dulkeit 1970: 156–160 (original description); Teslenko, 2009: 88–90. syn. n.

Type material examined. Holotype female ( NMP): Russia, Altai Republic, Teletskoye Lake near the confluence of Koksa River , 1931.VII.23, leg. S.G. Lepneva. The collecting date is not written in the French, while indicated as 1930.VII. 23 in the Czech text of the original description. The name of the river is written as Koksy in the Czech text, while Koksi (КоКШИ) is indicated on the original label ( Fig. 3c ).

Remarks. Despite that the specimen is in poor condition, it still exhibits the small subgenital plate same as illustrated in the original description of holotype ( Figs. 3a–b ). Five species of Alloperla are known from the Altai region ( A. acietata Zapekina-Dulkeit, 1975 , A. deminuta Zapekina-Dulkeit, 1970 , A. joosti Zwick, 1972 , A. mediata ( Navás, 1925) and A. rostellata ( Klapálek, 1923)) . The female subgenital plate of A. deminuta is consistent with the A. teleckojensis (see fig. 543 in Teslenko, 2009 and Figs. 3a, 3b ). Therefore, we believe those two species are conspecific and A. deminuta is considered herein as a junior synonym.

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FIGURE 3. Alloperla teleckojensis Šámal, 1939, holotype female. a: terminalia, ventral view; b: original illustration of the terminalia in ventral view from Šámal (1939); c: original labels found in the vial of the holotype specimen.