Rapisma McLachlan 1866
Creators: name: Liu, Xingyue
name: Li, Di
name: Yang, Zizhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Ithonidae
Rapisma

description: Key to Rapisma species from China (revised after Liu 2018)
1. Antennae extremely short, less than 1/5× forewing, moniliform; male gonocoxites 9 glabrous, not bilobed posteroventrally (Liu 2018: figs. 6D, 8E, 9E)............................................................................. 2
- Antennae relatively long, ~1/3× forewing length, subserrate; male gonocoxites 9 bilobed and covered with many short spines posteroventrally (Liu 2018: figs. 4E, 5).................................................................... 4
2. Body and forewings brownish in male but greenish in female; male fused gonocoxites 11 in dorsal view distinctly produced posterolaterally (Liu 2018: fig. 6C); Xizang .................................................. R. xizangense Yang
- Body and forewings greenish in both male and female; male fused gonocoxites 11 in dorsal view not produced posterolaterally (Liu 2018: figs. 8E, 9E)................................................................................. 3
3. Male head medially without dark marking (Liu 2018: fig. 3E); male fused gonocoxites 11 anteriorly broadly concaved and with a semicircular median notch (Liu 2018: fig. 8C); male gonostyli 11 not prominent posterolaterally (Liu 2018: fig. 8D); female gonocoxites+gonapophyses 8 subtrapezoid, with indistinct transverse suture (Liu 2018: fig. 8H); Shaanxi .............................................................................................. R. changqingensis Liu - Male head medially with dark markings (Liu 2018: fig. 3G); male fused gonocoxites 11 with broadly subtrapezoid anterior incision, but without accessory median notch (Liu 2018: fig. 9C); male gonostyli 11 prominent posterolaterally (Liu 2018: fig. 9D); female gonocoxites+gonapophysis 8 nearly pentagonal, with distinct, arched, transverse suture (Liu 2018: fig. 9H); Sichuan ................................................................................... R. yanhuangi Yang
4. Male head medially without dark marking (Fig. 3); male gonocoxites 9 with posteromedian lobes more or less curved anteriad (Fig. 8).............................................................................................. 5
- Male head medially with dark markings (Liu 2018: fig. 3A); male gonocoxites 9 with posteromedian lobes not curved anteriad (Liu 2018: fig. 4D); western Yunnan ........................................................... R. chikuni Liu
5. Male gonocoxite 9 with medially directed part feebly prominent posteriad and not strongly narrowed at tip (Fig. 8); male fused gonostyli 11 distinctly prominent laterally as a pair of obtuse processes (Fig. 7); western Yunnan ........................................................................................................ R. gaoligongensis sp. nov.
- Male gonocoxite 9 with medially directed part distinctly prominent posteriad and strongly narrowed and curved anteriorly (Liu 2018: fig. 5); male fused gonostyli 11 laterally subtriangular (Liu 2018: fig. 5); southern Yunnan .......... R. daianum Yang
description: Published as part of Liu, Xingyue, Li, Di & Yang, Zizhong, 2018, A new species of the montane lacewing genus Rapisma McLachlan (Neuroptera, Ithonidae) from China, pp. 266-270 in Zootaxa 4531 (2) on pages 269-270, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2614628