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Issue: Vol. 4619 No. 3: 20 Jun. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-06-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4619.3.8
Page range: 555–562
Abstract views: 55
PDF downloaded: 1

A synopsis of Microperla (Plecoptera: Peltoperlidae), with a new species from Shaanxi Province of China

School of Grain Science and Technology, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212004, China.
Xingping Plant Protection and Quarantine Station, Shaanxi 713100, China.
Plecoptera Peltoperlidae Microperla new species China

Abstract

A new species of the peltoperlid genus Microperla Chu, 1928, Microperla qinlinga Chen, sp. nov. from Shaanxi Province of northwestern China is described and illustrated. The new species is characterized by the widely rounded ventral lobe in males and the extremely large and bilobed subgenital plate in female. In addition, the taxonomic history and current status of the genus Microperla is reviewed.

 

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