Neoperla mnong Stark 1987
Creators: name: Zeng, Liang-Liang
name: Huo, Qing-Bo
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Perlidae
Neoperla
Neoperla mnong

description: Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987
Javanita costalis Navás, 1932: 925. Secondary homonym of Formosina costalis Klapálek (Zwick 1988)
Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987: 48. Holotype ♂ (California Academy of Sciences). Di Linh, Vietnam
Neoperla angustilobata Zwick, 1988: 404. Holotype ♀ (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle), New Synonymy
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Du Yu-Zhou; individualCount: 1; sex: 1 male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C53BD24C-67C4-52EC-B0BA-9AE9AAFEE10D; Taxon: scientificName: Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlidae; genus: Neoperla; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou Province; county: Leishan; locality: Danjiang Village; Identification: identifiedBy: Du Yu-Zhou, Huo Qing-Bo, Zeng Liang-Liang; Event: year: 2005; month: 6; day: 4; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Zeng Liang-Liang; individualCount: 3; sex: 3 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 63B63C98-FCD6-58E1-A968-2733B2D92A93; Taxon: scientificName: Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlidae; genus: Neoperla; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guangdong Province; county: Shixing; locality: Chebaling National Nature Reserve; Identification: identifiedBy: Du Yu-Zhou, Huo Qing-Bo, Zeng Liang-Liang; Event: year: 2020; month: 8; day: 23; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Zeng Liang-Liang; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 2820260E-0D2A-58EC-9D74-D8D11700AF60; Taxon: scientificName: Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlidae; genus: Neoperla; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Jiangxi Province; county: Longnan; locality: Jiulianshan National Nature Reserve; Identification: identifiedBy: Du Yu-Zhou, Huo Qing-Bo, Zeng Liang-Liang; Event: year: 2020; month: 7; day: 7-2; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Zeng Liang-Liang; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: B39AD1D6-AFDC-57A3-8EE3-E16F30D86640; Taxon: scientificName: Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Perlidae; genus: Neoperla; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Hunan Province; county: Huitong; locality: Yingzuijie National Nature Reserve; Identification: identifiedBy: Du Yu-Zhou, Huo Qing-Bo, Zeng Liang-Liang; Event: year: 2023; month: 7; day: 14; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Distribution
China (Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi); Vietnam; Thailand.
Taxon discussion
Stark and Sivec (2008) mentioned that N. mnong was first described as Javanita costalis (Navas 1932) from a female specimen and later described as a new species from a male specimen (Stark 1987). Due to their similar penis, N. mnong, N. han Stark, 1987, N. furcostyla Li & Qin, 2013, N. forcipata Yang and Yang, 1992 and N. yao Stark, 1987 were classified into the diehli subgroup (Wang et al. 2013). Subsequently, these species were assigned to the N. (Formosita) diehli complex (group) (Zwick 2023). It needs to be corrected as the penis of N. mnong was misidentified as N. dao Stark & Sivec, 2008 in Zwick (2023), on page 116, figure 67. The diehli complex (group) is primarily distributed in low-latitude regions of East Asia to South Asia, including southern China (Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hainan etc.) to areas spanning Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia.
This article records for the first time the distribution of this species in Guizhou, Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces of China, covering most of the southern region of China to Vietnam, indicating that it is a species that is widely distributed in coastal areas of Southeast Asia (Fig. 6). In China, this species is primarily concentrated in the Nanling Mountains, but records from Guizhou and Hunan suggest that it may also occur in adjacent inland provinces to the west (or north) of the Nanling Mountains. In the future, more widespread species or new distribution records of the diehli complex (group) may be reported. We provide additional illustrations (Figs 7, 8) to aid in the recognition of this species.
description: Published as part of Zeng, Liang-Liang, Huo, Qing-Bo & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2024, Redescription of two species of Neoperla Needham, 1905 (Plecoptera, Perlidae) and new distribution records of Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987 in China, pp. e 127089 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e127089, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e127089