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Issue: Vol. 4378 No. 4: 12 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.4.9
Page range: 581–588
Abstract views: 105
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Description of the final-instar larva and pupa of Neoneuromus ignobilis Navás, 1932 (Megaloptera: Corydalidae)

College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China Key Laboratory of Sichuan Institute for Protecting Endangered Birds in the Southwest Mountains, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China College of Biology and Environmental Sciences, China hellgrammites Research Center, Jishou University, Jishou, Hunan 416000, China
Key Laboratory of Sichuan Institute for Protecting Endangered Birds in the Southwest Mountains, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China
College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China
College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China
College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China
College of Life Science, Leshan Normal University, Leshan, Sichuan 614004, China
Department of Entomology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
Megaloptera Corydalinae dobsonfly immature taxonomy morphology

Abstract

The immature stages of only one species of the dobsonfly genus Neoneuromus van der Weele are known. The final-instar larva and pupa of N. ignobilis Navás, 1932, the most common and widespread species of the genus, is herein described for the first time. Several morphological features of the larvae were found to distinguish N. ignobilis from other dobsonfly species with similar large-sized mature larvae.

 

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