Nemoura nankinensis Wu 1926
Creators: name: Chen, Zhi-Teng
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Nemouridae
Nemoura
Nemoura nankinensis

description: <i>Nemoura nankinensis</i> Wu, 1926 http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Plecoptera.speciesfile.org: TaxonName:6358 (Figs. 4-5) <i>Nemoura nankinensis</i> Wu, 1926. J. Sci. Arts. 5:332. Type locality: Jiangsu Province, Nanking; Wu, 1938. Plecopt. Sin., 182; Illies, 1966. Das Tierreich, 82:208. <b>Type material</b> (lost). Holotype: male, <b>China</b>: Jiangsu Province, Nanking, Ning-Kuo Temple, 4 April, 1923, leg. Chenfu Wu. <b>Material examined.</b> 18 males and 10 females, China: Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, Mt. Zijinshan, 18-19 February, 2006, leg. Zhi-Jie Wang; 1 male and 1 female, same locality, 2 February, 2016, leg. Zhi- Teng Chen, Zhi-Jie Wang; 41 males and 21 females, same locality, 17 February, 2016, leg. Zhi-Teng Chen, Qin-Bo Huo, Qiu-Yue Huo; 19 males and 18 females, same locality, 3 March, 2016, leg. Zhi-Teng Chen, Qin-Bo Huo. <b>Remarks.</b> The epiproct of <i>N. nankinensis</i> is oval with the dorsal sclerite medially having a pair of separated, transverse lateral arms reaching the ventral sclerite, and the anterior of the arms with a pair of circular, apically bifurcated sclerites. The ventral sclerite is broad with a row of long spines. The lateral knob is well developed but weakly sclerotized (Figs. 4-5). The holotype and all paratypes of <i>N. nankinensis</i> are lost (Wu 1962). The original description and illustrations by Wu (1926, 1938) were typically incomplete. Yang <i>et al.</i> (2015) repeated the original description and used the illustrations of Wu (1926). These authors indicated that the male genitalia of <i>N. nankinensis</i> was similar with <i>N. yunnanensis</i> Wu, 1940 (see fig. 275 in Yang <i>et al.</i> 2015), but this morphological similarity is difficult to ascertain with their available illustrations. Based on the male epiproct and cercal characters, <i>N. nankinensis</i> appears more similar with <i>N. oculata</i> Wang &amp; Du, 2006 (see Figs. 15-21 in Wang <i>et al.</i> 2006) described from Guizhou Province of southwestern China. However, comprehensive morphological studies of both males and females of the many species of the genus <i>Nemoura</i> described or reported from China (DeWalt <i>et al.</i> 2017) are necessary before specific relationships can be determined more accurately.
description: Published as part of <i>Chen, Zhi-Teng &amp; Du, Yu-Zhou, 2017, Supplementary Illustrations For Two Nemoura (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) Species, pp. 98-103 in Illiesia 13 (10)</i> on page 102, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4761103
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