Rhopalopsole fengyangshanensis Yang, Shi & Li, 2009

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 fengyangshanensis Yang, Shi & Li, 2009

Rhopalopsole fengyangshanensis : Yang et al. (2009): 193.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Chen Zhi-Ten, Shen Yue; individualCount: 3; sex: male; occurrenceStatus: present; Taxon: scientificName: Rhopalopsole fengyangshanensis Yang, Shi & Li, 2009; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Leuctridae; taxonRank: species; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Fujian Province; locality: Wuyi Mountains (Tongmucun) ; minimumElevationInMeters: 478; verbatimLatitude: 27°44′51″N; verbatimLongitude: 117°40′39″E; Identification: identifiedBy: Yang Yu-Ben; Event: year: 2017; month: 5; 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. We think this species belongs to the R. vietnamica west group as proposed by Sivec et al. (2008). Head dark brown, slightly wider than pronotum; compound eyes dark; antennae and mouth-parts brown (Fig. 4 A). Tergum 9 possesses a small field on its hind margin. Tergum 10 possesses a central plate and two sclerotized bands on each side of the plate. Lateral projections of tergum 10 typically ending in a forked process, inner side has a finger-like ornamentation. Epiproct thick, hook-like, in top view, very blunt (Fig. 4 B and C).

Type locality

China, Zhejiang Province (Fengyang Mountain, Fengyanghu).

Distribution

China (Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi).

Figures

Figure 4. Rhopalopsole fengyangshanensis Yang, Shi & Li, 2009. A Male head and pronotum, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, dorsal view; C Male terminalia, lateral view; D Male terminalia, ventral view.