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Issue: Vol. 5507 No. 1: 11 Sept. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-09-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5507.1.1
Page range: 1-56
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Overview of the Caucasian Perla Geoffroy, 1762 (Plecoptera: Perlidae) based on morphological and molecular data with description of two new species

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences (FSC EATB FEB RAS); 690022; Vladivostok; Russia
Severtsov A.N. Institute of Ecology and Evolution of RAS; 33 Leninsky prospect; 119071 Moscow; Russia
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch; Russian Academy of Sciences (FSC EATB FEB RAS); 690022; Vladivostok; Russia
Plecoptera Perla morphology redescription DNA barcoding new species Caucasus

Abstract

Six species of Caucasian Perla are reviewed, and diagnostic morphological characteristics of all stages of development (where possible) are described, supplemented, and illustrated in detail with comparative light microscope and scanning electron microscopy images. The DNA barcoding of five species is presented. Two new morphologically and genetically distinct species, Perla schapsugica sp. nov. and Perla palatovi sp. nov., are described for both sexes and all life stages in the North Caucasus, Russia, Krasnodar Kray. Reinstatement of Perla persica Zwick, 1975, as a valid species distinct from P. caucasica Guérin-Méneville, 1843, is proposed. A new record of P. persica is reported for the Greater Caucasus, Russia, North-Ossetia-Alania for the first time. Morphologically, these two latter species can be separated in male adults by the shape of the hemitergal hook on terga X, an additional ventral brush on the penis of P. caucasica, wing length, and color.

 

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