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Kamimuria manchuriana Wu

  • 1. Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, P. O. Box 290, SLO- 1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail: isivec @ pms-lj. si
  • 2. Box 4045, Department of Biology, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, U. S. A. 39058 E-mail: stark @ mc. edu

Description

Kamimuria manchuriana Wu

(Figs. 98-100)

Kamimuria manchuriana Wu, 1938:199. Holotype ♂ [lost Wu, 1962] (Yenching University), Yalu River, 150-200 miles from mouth, Manchuria

Perla manchuriana: Illies, 1966:291

Material examined. Neotype ♂ (pinned) from “ Manchuria and Korea, Yalu River, 150-200 miles

from mouth”, [border between Liaoning Province, China and North Korea], May, 1914, A.de C. Sowerbyi (USNM). Additional specimens, 1 pinned ♂ with same data (USNM).

Adult habitus. General color pale brown. Pattern obscured by specimen condition but according to Wu (1938) the holotype had a pale brown head and pronotum and a dark ocellar triangle. Antennae, palpi, cerci and legs were pale brown and the wings were pale with yellow veins.

Male. Forewing length 14 mm. Hemitergal lobes relatively thick, curved and extending forward over tip of tergum 9 (Fig. 98); lobes swollen in basal third in lateral aspect (Fig. 99) and bearing a few sensilla basiconica on the ventroapical margin. Tergum 9 with a median patch of sensilla basiconica. Aedeagus multilobed and downturned near apex (Fig. 100); apex ending in a prominent median and pair of basolateral spiny lobes and additional subapical dorsal and ventral lobes; ventral subapical lobe small rounded and covered with microtrichia on apex, dorsal subapical lobe bare. Most of aedeagal surface unarmed.

Female. Unknown.

Larva. Unknown.

Comments. Wu (1962) indicates most of the type specimens in Chinese collections were destroyed during the war years and this has been confirmed by one of us (IS) during previous visits to Beijing.Some specimens from Wu (1962, 1973) survived in poor condition but those from earlier studies, including collections in Yenching, Shanghi and various university museums were apparently destroyed. Kamimuria manchuriana was described by Wu (1938) from a single male from “…Manchuria, about 150- 200 miles from the mouth of Yalu River; May 1914; A. de C. Sowerby collector” and the holotype male was placed in the “Yenching University collection”. The two males from the USNM are part of the same series but apparently were unknown to Wu; these specimens are in close agreement with Wu’s description, particularly in his reference to the presence of “fine spinules on the ventral surface of the [hemitergal] tip”, and consequently we designate one of them with the aedeagus more fully everted as neotype, in order to clarify the identity of this species.

Notes

Published as part of Sivec, Ignac & Stark, Bill P., 2008, New Species Of Kamimuria Klapálek (Plecoptera: Perlidae) From Thailand And Vietnam, With Notes On Chinese Species, pp. 110-138 in Illiesia 4 (12) on pages 134-135, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4758787

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Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Wu
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Plecoptera
Family
Perlidae
Genus
Kamimuria
Species
manchuriana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
neotype

References

  • Wu, C. F. 1938. The stoneflies of China (Order Plecoptera). Bulletin of the Peking Society of Natural History, 13: 53 - 87.
  • Wu, C. F. 1962. Results of the zoologico-botanical expedition to southwest China, 1955 - 1957 (Order Plecoptera). Acta Entomological Sinica, 11: 139 - 153.
  • Illies, J. 1966. Katalog der rezenten Plecoptera. Das Tierreich 82. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin. 631 pp.
  • Wu, C. F. 1973. New species of Chinese stoneflies (Order Plecoptera). Acta Entomologica Sinica, 16: 111 - 118.