Rhopalopsole yangdingi Sivec & Harper, 2008

Yang, Yu-Ben, Zhu, Bin-Qing, Rehman, Abdur & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2022, A review of Leuctridae (Insecta, Plecoptera) in Wuyi Mountains, China, Biodiversity Data Journal 10, pp. 86735-86735 : 86735

Rhopalopsole yangdingi Sivec & Harper, 2008

Rhopalopsole yangdingi : Sivec et al. (2008): 109.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence : recordedBy: Chen Zhi-Ten , Shen Yue (ICYZU); individualCount: 3; sex: male; occurrenceStatus: present; disposition: ICYZU; Taxon : scientificName: Rhopalopsole yangdingi Sivec & Harper, 2008; kingdom: Animalia ; phylum: Arthropoda ; class: Insecta ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; taxonRank: species; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location : continent: Asia ; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Fujian; locality: Wuyi Mountains (Tongmucun) ; maximumElevationInMeters: 478; verbatimLatitude: 27°44′51″N,; verbatimLongitude: 117°40′39″E; Identification: identifiedBy: Yang Yu-Ben & Du Yu-Zhou; Event: year: 2017; month: 05; day: 14; verbatimEventDate: 14-05-2017; Record Level: language: En; institutionCode: ICYZU; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen .

Description

Diagnosis and remarks

The report of this species is a new distribution record to Wuyi Mountains and had been well described by Sivec et al. (2008) and we defined our specimens as R. yangdingi after we checked the holotype of this species. Head pale brown, slightly wider than pronotum; compound eyes dark; antennae and mouth-parts pale brown (Fig. 8 A). Tergum 10 bearing a large central plate and the hind margin strongly sclerotized. Epiproct stocky, terminating in a trilobed tip, the middle is round, two other lobes are corners of epiproct (Fig. 8 ).

Type locality

China, Jiangxi Province (Dayue Mountain).

Distribution

China (Jiangxi, Fujian).

Figures

Figure 8. Rhopalopsole yangdingi Sivec & Harper, 2008. A Male head and pronotum, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, dorsal view; C Male terminalia, lateral view; D Male terminalia, ventral view.