Neoperla nitida Kimmins, 1950

Stark, Bill P. & Sivec, Ignac, 2015, New Species And Records Of Neoperla (Plecoptera: Perlidae) From India, Illiesia 11 (7), pp. 75-91 : 79-80

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4760954
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scientific name	Neoperla nitida Kimmins
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Neoperla nitida Kimmins View in CoL

Neoperla nitida Kimmins 1950:184 View in CoL .

Holotype ♂ (British Museum of Natural History), Narakaidu, Tinnevelley District, [Tamil Nadu] India

Neoperla nitida: Zwick, 1981:118 View in CoL . Redescription

Material examined. INDIA: Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Pon Mudi, 23 May 2003, Mercury vapor lamp, 5♀ ( BYUC). Tamil Nadu, Cinchona, Anamalai Hills, 3500’ [ft. asl], April 1957, P.S. Nathan, 3♂ ( USNM). Same location, May 1957, P.S. Nathan, 2♂ ( USNM). Same location, April 1959, P.S. Nathan, 1♂ ( USNM).

Comments. Zwick (1981) redescribed this species from type material and from additional specimens collected in Tamil Nadu State. His egg figures, based on light microscopy, show an oval egg with no collar, but with closely packed, narrow striae. Although the external male genitalic structures are quite distinct, the egg and aedeagus of this species appear almost identical to those of N. schlitz Stark

& Sivec (2008a) as discussed below under the account of that species. Female specimens from Kerala, listed above, have eggs that appear indistinguishable from those attributed to N. schlitz , but lack the distinctive head pattern found in males and females identified as N. schlitz .