Soyedina parkeri Grubbs & Kondratieff, 2019

Grubbs, Scott A. & Baumann, Richard W., 2023, The Nemourinae (Insecta, Nemouridae) of the eastern Nearctic, Zootaxa 5306 (1), pp. 1-53 : 40

20. Soyedina parkeri Grubbs & Kondratieff, 2019

Unexpected Forestfly

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( Figs. 135–138 )

Soyedina parkeri Grubbs et al. 2019:2 . Holotype male (United States National Museum), All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Plot 14, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Haywood Co., North Carolina, USA

Distribution. USA: NC ( DeWalt et al. 2022)

Male. Macropterous. Body length 7.3 mm, forewing length 6.7 mm (n = 1, in Grubbs et al. 2019). Gills absent. Cerci simple and unmodified. Paraprocts with two lobes, inner lobes lightly sclerotized and inconspicuous, outer lobes heavily sclerotized, bulbous at base, enlarged and rounded in apical half, lightly sclerotized, noticeably expanded anteriorly at apex ( Fig. 137‒138 ). Epiproct slightly asymmetric, atypical for genus ( Figs. 135‒136 ); ventral sclerites partially recurved over abdomen, distinctly asymmetric, apically subtriangular ( Figs. 135‒136 ); dorsal sclerites slightly asymmetric, appearing scaly at higher magnifications ( Figs. 135‒136 ), open apically, inner member heavily sclerotized, slightly tapered apically ( Figs. 135‒136 ).

Female. Unknown.

Larva. Unknown.

Comments. Soyedina parkeri is presently known only from two localities in the southern Appalachian Highlands region in western North Carolina (Grubbs et al. 2019) .

Figures

FIGURES 135‒138. Soyedina parkeri.135, USA, North Carolina,ATBI plot, epiproct, ventral view; 136, USA, North Carolina, ATBI plot, epiproct apex, ventral view; 137, USA, North Carolina, Wine Spring Creek, outer paraproct lobe, lateral view; 138, USA, North Carolina, ATBI plot, abdominal terminalia, lateral view. ds = dorsal sclerite, im = inner member, vs = ventral sclerite.