Nepalota yunnanensis PACE, 2011

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Nepalota yunnanensis PACE, 2011: 169.

Material examined China Sichuan: 1♂, Gongga Shan, Hailuogou Glacier Park, river valley ca. 1 km above Camp 1, 29°36'N, 102°04'E, 2100 m, 28.-31.V.1997, leg. Pütz (cPüt). Yunnan: 4exs.,NujiangLisuAut. Pref., Gaoligong Shan, 20 km NW Liuku, 25°49'N, 98°42'E, 3000 m, bamboo and shrubs, litter sifted, 9.VI.2007, leg. Wrase (cSch); 2 exs., Zhongdian Co., 48 km N Zhongdian, 28°17'N, 99°46'E, 3220 m, stream valley with degraded primary forest, moss sifted, 21.VIII.2003, leg. Schülke (cSch, cAss); 1 ex., Zhongdian Co., 55 km N Zhongdian, 28°20'N, 99°46'E, 3800 m, primary mixed forest with rhododendron, sifted, 18.VIII.2003, leg. Schülke (cSch); 3 exs., Dali Bai Aut. Pref., Diancang Shan, 43 km NW Dali, 26°00'N, 100°01'E, 2700 m, secondary pine forest, litter and moss sifted, 23.VIII.2009, leg. Schülke & Wrase (cSch, cAss).

Comment: This species was described from one male and one female collected in a locality near Zhongdian in northwestern Yunnan (PACE 2011). The male from the Gongga Shan is labelled as a paratype of N. yunnanensis, but not mentioned in the original description (PACE 2011). Based on the similarly derived male sexual characters, particularly the shape of the ventral process of the aedeagus, and the similar external characters, this species is closely related to, and probably the adelphotaxon of, N. gansuensis, from which it is distinguished by the presence of a median granule on the male tergite III and by the slightly different shape of the aedeagus.

The currently known distribution is illustrated in Map 4. The examined material was sifted from litter in various forest and shrub habitats at elevations of 2100-3800 m.