Published April 16, 2025 | Version v1
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Megarcys ochracea

  • 1. College of Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology , Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China
  • 2. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (FSC EATB FEB RAS), 690022, Vladivostok, Russia
  • 3. College of Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology , Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China & Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, the Ministry of Education, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Description

Megarcys ochracea (Klapálek, 1912)

Perlodes (Megarcys) ochracea Klapálek, 1912: 10.

Matsumuria sapporensis Okamoto, 1912: 16.

Perlodes yarizawana Uéno, 1931: 99.

Megarcys ochracea Kasai, 1938: 49.

Perlodes lepneva Šámal, 1939: 420.

Arcynopteryx (Megarcys) ochracea Ricker, 1952: 78.

Megarcys lepneva Illies, 1966: 370.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 6; sex: 2 males, 4 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: BF80B542-C585-5297-80BB-0C53BC487D63; Taxon: scientificName: Megarcys ochracea (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Megarcys; specificEpithet: ochracea; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Songlin District, Jinsong town; maximumElevationInMeters: 480; verbatimLatitude: 51.072427; verbatimLongitude: 124.194817; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 4; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 2; sex: 1 male, 1 female; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: BF80B542-C585-5297-80BB-0C53BC487D63; Taxon: scientificName: Megarcys ochracea (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Megarcys; specificEpithet: ochracea; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Tahe county; maximumElevationInMeters: 363; verbatimLatitude: 52.304958; verbatimLongitude: 124.696754; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 1; sex: 1 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: BF80B542-C585-5297-80BB-0C53BC487D63; Taxon: scientificName: Megarcys ochracea (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Megarcys; specificEpithet: ochracea; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Mohe county, Amuer town; maximumElevationInMeters: 486; verbatimLatitude: 52.832106; verbatimLongitude: 123.156700; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 8; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU

Diagnosis

The apex of each hemitergal lobe of the male tergгum 10 is narrow laterally, bluntly rounded; the apex of the epiproct is narrow, rod-shaped; the lateral stylets are dark, tapering towards the apex and pointed. The supracoxal and submental gills are elongated. The posterior margin of the female subgenital plate is divided by a wide notch into two obliquely cut lobes directed medially backwards (Fig. 6 A-D).

Distribution

Russia, Siberia, Far East (Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). Mongolia, North Korea, Japan (DeWalt et al. 2024). The genus Megarcys Klapálek, 1912 and species M. ochracea are recorded for China for the first time.

Notes

Shi (2022) regarded this genus and species as new records from Jiling Province (Mt. Changbai) in his Master’s degree thesis (data are available from CNKI), but it was not published.

Notes

Published as part of Zhu, Ya-Fei, Rehman, Abdur, Yang, Xiao, Huo, Qing-Bo, Zeng, Liang-Liang, Teslenko, Valentina A. & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, New records of stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Greater Khingan Mountains, China, pp. e 151489 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e151489, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e151489

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ICYZU
Event date
2023-06-04 , 2023-06-06 , 2023-06-08
Verbatim event date
2023-06-04 , 2023-06-06 , 2023-06-08
Scientific name authorship
Klapalek
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Plecoptera
Family
Perlodidae
Genus
Megarcys
Species
ochracea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Megarcys ochracea (Klapalek, 1912) sec. Zhu, Rehman, Yang, Huo, Zeng, Teslenko & Du, 2025

References

  • Teslenko V. A., Zhiltzova L. A. 2009 Key to the stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) of Russia and adjacent countries. Imagines and nymphs Dalnauka Vladivostok 382
  • DeWalt R. E., Maehr M. D., Hopkins H., Neu-Becker U., Stueber G. 2024 Plecoptera species file Version 5 0 / 5.0 http://Plecoptera.SpeciesFile.org
  • Shi W. J. 2022 Taxonomic study of Perloidea (Plecoptera) from northeastern area China Masters Degree dissertation, Henan Institute of Science and Technology 121