Protohermes acutatus Liu, Hayashi & Yang, 2007, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Liu, Xingyue
name: Hayashi, Fumio
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Megaloptera
Corydalidae
Protohermes
Protohermes acutatus

description: Protohermes acutatus sp. nov.
(Figs. 6, 24–30)
Diagnosis. Head with two brownish or blackish markings on each side of vertex; pronotum with two blackish markings on each side; male tenth sternum with well developed V-shaped posterior incision, leaving two acutely angled, triangular distal processes.
Body length 30–32 mm (male) and 43–45 mm (female); forewing length 41–42 mm (male) and 48–50 mm (female), hindwing length 37–38 mm (male) and 43–45 mm (female).
Head (Fig. 24) yellowish brown, without post-ocular spine; vertex with two brownish or blackish markings on each side, lateral marking long, cuneiform, medial marking punctuate, sometimes markings indistinct. Compound eyes brown; ocelli yellowish brown, darkly margined medially. Antennae black, with scapes and pedicel yellowish brown. Mouthparts yellowish brown; maxillary palpus and labial palpus dark brown, mandible with distal half black.
Prothorax (Fig. 24) yellowish brown; pronotum with two blackish markings on each side. Meso- and metathorax pale yellow to yellowish brown, each dorsally with one pair of brownish markings laterally. Thoracic pilosity yellow, much longer on meso- and metathorax. Legs yellow, with dense, yellowish, short setae; tibiae black apically; tarsal claws reddish brown. Forewings (Fig. 6) pale brown, with 1 large yellowish marking at base, 3–4 yellowish markings at middle, and 1 extremely small white spot on apical 1/3; costal cellules with indistinct brownish stripes. Hindwings paler than forewings, with 1 extremely small white spot on apical 1/3. Veins dark, except veins in yellowish markings pale yellow. Rs 9 to10-branched, last branch trifurcate; 9–10 crossveins between R1 and Rs; M1+2 6 to7-branched, M3+4 2 to 4-branched; 1A 3-branched.
Abdomen brown with yellowish short setae. Male ninth tergum (Fig. 25) subquadrate, with trapezoidal anterior margin and shallowly incised posterior margin. Ninth sternum (Fig. 26) broad; posterior margin with deep trapezoidal incision, forming two acutely angled, triangular distal processes; central portion inflated. Ninth gonostylus (Fig. 27) unguiform and slightly curved inwards and dorsad. Tenth tergum (Figs. 25–26) short and subcylindrical, ventrally with one well developed tufted tubercle at posteromedial corner; posterolateral corner slightly and acutely produced; tip slightly incised and densely setose. Tenth sternum (Fig. 28) arched, anteriorly distinctly elevated at middle, posterior incision well developed and V-shaped, forming two acutely angled triangular processes; lateral lobes elongated and digitiform, distally slightly incurved. Female eighth sternum (Fig. 29–30) strongly sclerotized and subtriangular in lateral view; apical margin distinctly elevated with arcuate median incision, forming pair of obtuse processes; ninth segment (Fig. 29) laterally inflated in one pair of large subquadrate sac-like lobes; ninth gonocoxite valvate and membranous with one digitiform process at tip; tenth tergum short, with posterior margin medially incised, leaving one subtriangular upper and one round lower lobe.
Type materials. Holotype ɗ, CHINA: Chongqing, Wanxian, Wangerbao, 1200 m, 27.V.1994, Wenzhu Li (IZCAS). Paratypes 3 ɗ Ψ, CHINA: Chongqing, Wanxian, Wangerbao, 1200 m, 28.V.1994, Wenzhu Li (IZCAS); ɗ, CHINA: Chongqing, Changshou, Nanmuyuan, 450 m, 9.VI.1994, Youwei Zhang (IZCAS); ɗ, CHINA: Chongqing, Changshou, Nanmuyuan, 450 m, 9.VI.1994, Wenzhu Li (IZCAS); 2 Ψ, CHINA: Chongqing, Fengdu, Shiping, 610 m, 2.VI.1994, Youwei Zhang (IZCAS); Ψ, CHINA: Chongqing, Fengdu, Shiping, 610 m, 3.VI.1994, Youwei Zhang (IZCAS); ɗ, CHINA: Shannxi, Langao, Minzhu, 4.VII.2003, Caixia Yuan & Yushuang Liu (HBU).
Distribution. China (Chongqing, Shannxi).
Etymology. The specific epithet ‘ acutatus ’ refers to the acutely angled apical processes of the male tenth sternum.
Remarks. The new species appears to be closely related to P. s i m i l i s in having a similar pattern of markings on the head and prothorax, while it is distinguished by the pattern of markings on the wings and the structure of the male genitalia. In P. acutatus, the yellowish round markings on the apical 1/3 of the forewings are absent, instead having an extremely small white spot, and the posterior incision of the male tenth sternum is distinct, forming a pair of acutely angled posterior processes. In P. s i m i l i s, the round yellowish markings are distinct on the apical 1/3 of the forewings, and the posterior incision of the male tenth sternum is extremely small.
description: Published as part of Liu, Xingyue, Hayashi, Fumio & Yang, Ding, 2007, Systematics of the Protohermes costalis species-group (Megaloptera: Corydalidae), pp. 1-46 in Zootaxa 1439 on pages 13-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175948