Capnioneura bolkari Vinçon &amp; Sivec 2011, sp. n.
Creators: name: Vinçon, Gilles
name: Sivec, Ignac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Capniidae
Capnioneura
Capnioneura bolkari

description: <i>Capnioneura bolkari</i> sp. n. (Figs. 1-5) <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype &amp;male;: Turkey, Central Taurus, North West Tarsus, brook and spring between Camliyalya and Bögrüegri, 34°36'E / 37°09'N, 4-V-97. The holotype and one female paratype are deposited in the Zoological Museum of Lausanne, Switzerland. Other paratypes, same locality, 5&amp;male;, 13&amp;female;; brook below Dorak, South Camliyalya, 34°42'E / 37°02'N, 4-V-97, 3&amp;male;, 2&amp;female; (held in Sivec and Vinçon collections). <b>Description.</b> Body length &amp;male; 5.5 – 6.1 mm, &amp;female; 5.8 – 6.5 mm. &amp;male; slightly brachypterous: anterior wing 3.8 – 4.1 mm. &amp;female; normally winged: anterior wing 5.7 – 6.0 mm. Head and whole body dark brown. <b>Male</b> (Fig. 1-3). Tergite VII-VIII with a wide rounded membraneous field on the posterior margin. Tergite IX similar, forming a transversal sclerotized strip that narrows medially; the anterior margin is strongly curved. Tergite X with rounded anterior margin and sub-triangular median membraneous field (Fig. 1). Epiproct regularly curved at its base and ending into a rounded apex with a triangular anterior tooth; another tooth is also present one third of the distance from the tip of the epiproct, on the anterior edge (Fig. 2). Specillum hook-shaped, ending in a sharp point (Fig. 3). Paraproct shaft more or less rectilinear, blade-shaped, and regularly narrowing toward the apex (Fig. 2). Cercus rather thick, becoming thinner towards the apex (Fig. 1). <b>Female</b> (Fig. 4-5). Tergite I-VIII with wide median membraneous area. Tergite IX-X fully sclerotized. Sternite VII: the wide subgenital plate has a sub triangular posterior extension that covers the median part of sternite VIII and nearly reaches the middle of sternite VIII. Sternite VIII with a median membraneous area, partly crossed by the projection of sternite VII; on each side of this membraneous field, two anterior and two posterior dark spots are clearly visible on the inner edge of the lateral plates. <b>Affinities.</b> Male related to <i>Capnioneura petitpierrae</i> Aubert by the shape of the specillum and paraproct blades, but the epiproct is quite different and resembles that of <i>C. mitis</i> Despax and <i>C. caucasica</i> Zhiltzova. It differs from <i>C. caucasica</i> and <i>C. mitis</i> by the shape of the specillum, ending in an acute hook, and by the slightly curved apex of the paraproct blades. The female is close to those of <i>C. caucasica</i> and <i>C. petitpierrae,</i> from which it differs mainly by the two posterior spots on sternite VII. <b>Etymology.</b> Named after the mountainous region where the species occurs. The Bolkar Daglari is a high altitude mountain range that culminates at 3524 m a.s.l. (Medetsiz Tape), in the Central Taurus. <b>Ecology.</b> Orophilic, crenophilic species occurring in mountain springs and brooklets on a calcareous substratum. The altitude of the localities, though not measured with precision, is higher than 1000 m a.s.l. <b>Distribution.</b> This micro-endemic species is only known from two localities in the same mountainous region, northwards Tarsus (Central Taurus) (Fig. 12).
description: Published as part of <i>Vinçon, Gilles &amp; Sivec, Ignac, 2011, Contribution To The Knowledge Of The Capniidae (Plecoptera) Of Turkey., pp. 118-126 in Illiesia 7 (11)</i> on pages 118-120, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4760121