Diura majuscula
Creators: name: Zhu, Ya-Fei
name: Rehman, Abdur
name: Yang, Xiao
name: Huo, Qing-Bo
name: Zeng, Liang-Liang
name: Teslenko, Valentina A.
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlodidae
Diura
Diura majuscula

description: Diura majuscula (Klapálek, 1912)
Dictyopterygella majuscula Klapálek, 1912: 45.
Diura majuscula Zhiltzova, 1975.
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 7; sex: 3 males, 4 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 350DF541-54F4-5CE1-A85F-7C19EE812579; Taxon: scientificName: Diura majuscula (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda;; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Diura; specificEpithet: majuscula; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Mohe county; maximumElevationInMeters: 444; verbatimLatitude: 52.974534; verbatimLongitude: 122.543546; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 5; day: 28; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 350DF541-54F4-5CE1-A85F-7C19EE812579; Taxon: scientificName: Diura majuscula (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda;; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Diura; specificEpithet: majuscula; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Tahe county, Pangu town; maximumElevationInMeters: 562; verbatimLatitude: 52.682158; verbatimLongitude: 123.861120; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 1; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 14; sex: 8 males, 6 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 350DF541-54F4-5CE1-A85F-7C19EE812579; Taxon: scientificName: Diura majuscula (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda;; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Diura; specificEpithet: majuscula; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Tahe county; maximumElevationInMeters: 363; verbatimLatitude: 52.304958; verbatimLongitude: 124.696754; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 4; sex: 2 males, 2 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 350DF541-54F4-5CE1-A85F-7C19EE812579; Taxon: scientificName: Diura majuscula (Klapálek, 1912); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda;; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlodidae; genus: Diura; specificEpithet: majuscula; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Mohe county, Amuer town; maximumElevationInMeters: 509; verbatimLatitude: 52.833932; verbatimLongitude: 123.173923; Identification: identifiedBy: Qing-Bo Huo; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 8; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Diagnosis
The male paraprocts are slightly swollen, laterally without a projection in front of the apex. The M-line on the head is light and clear. The female subgenital plate is strongly transverse, not tapering posteriorly, reaching half the length of the 9 th sternum (Fig. 5 A-D).
Distribution
Russia, Far East (Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). Mongolia (DeWalt et al. 2024). The genus Diura Billberg, 1820 and species D. majuscula are recorded for China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Ya-Fei, Rehman, Abdur, Yang, Xiao, Huo, Qing-Bo, Zeng, Liang-Liang, Teslenko, Valentina A. & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, New records of stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Greater Khingan Mountains, China, pp. e 151489 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e151489, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e151489