Two new species of Amphinemura (Plecoptera, Nemouridae) from the southern Qinling Mountains of China, based on male, female and larvae

By

Li, Weihai
Mo, Raorao
Dong, Wenbin
Yang, Ding
Murányi, Dávid

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

808

Pages

1-21

Subjects

A. dingoidea , Amphinemura albicauda , Amphinemurinae , new records , new species , Shaanxi , Stoneflies

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.808.29433

 

Abstract

Two new species of the genusAmphinemura,A.albicaudasp. n.andA.dingoideasp. n.from the southern Qinling Mountains, Foping County of Shaanxi Province, western China, are described based on both sexes and the larval stage. The new species are compared with related taxa, and theA.sinensisspecies group is defined for an Oriental lineage of the genus.Amphinemurasinensis(Wu, 1926) andA.unihamata(Wu, 1973) are reported from Shaanxi for the first time, and the hitherto unknown female ofA.unihamatais described. A distribution map of the Amphinemurinae known from Qinling Mountains is given.