Utaperla lepnevae
Creators: name: Zhu, Ya-Fei
name: Rehman, Abdur
name: Yang, Xiao
name: Huo, Qing-Bo
name: Zeng, Liang-Liang
name: Teslenko, Valentina A.
name: Du, Yu-Zhou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Chloroperlidae
Utaperla
Utaperla lepnevae

description: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970)
Paraperla lepnevae Zhiltzova & Levanidova, 1970: 380.
Utaperla lepnevae Stark, Baumann, Kondratieff & Stewart, 2013: 101.
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 2; sex: 2 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 0E458D34-9030-5DF9-B810-94A33F22B09B; Taxon: scientificName: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Chloroperlidae; genus: Utaperla; specificEpithet: lepnevae; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Jiagedaqi District; maximumElevationInMeters: 451; verbatimLatitude: 50.403951; verbatimLongitude: 124.120544; Identification: identifiedBy: Abdur Rehman & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 3; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 0E458D34-9030-5DF9-B810-94A33F22B09B; Taxon: scientificName: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Chloroperlidae; genus: Utaperla; specificEpithet: lepnevae; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Xinlin District, Dawusu town; maximumElevationInMeters: 451; verbatimLatitude: 51.735212; verbatimLongitude: 124.504425; Identification: identifiedBy: Abdur Rehman & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 5; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 18; sex: 8 males, 10 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 0E458D34-9030-5DF9-B810-94A33F22B09B; Taxon: scientificName: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Chloroperlidae; genus: Utaperla; specificEpithet: lepnevae; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Xinlin District, Taergen town; maximumElevationInMeters: 392; verbatimLatitude: 52.232944; verbatimLongitude: 124.689441; Identification: identifiedBy: Abdur Rehman & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 34; sex: 18 males, 16 females; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 0E458D34-9030-5DF9-B810-94A33F22B09B; Taxon: scientificName: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Chloroperlidae; genus: Utaperla; specificEpithet: lepnevae; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Mohe county, Amuer town; maximumElevationInMeters: 451; verbatimLatitude: 52.833932; verbatimLongitude: 123.173923; Identification: identifiedBy: Abdur Rehman & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 8; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: 1 males; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 0E458D34-9030-5DF9-B810-94A33F22B09B; Taxon: scientificName: Utaperla lepnevae (Zhiltzova, 1970); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Chloroperlidae; genus: Utaperla; specificEpithet: lepnevae; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Xinlin District, Dawusu town; maximumElevationInMeters: 500; verbatimLatitude: 51.735212; verbatimLongitude: 124.504425; Identification: identifiedBy: Abdur Rehman & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 5; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU
Diagnosis
The head is elongated behind the eyes, the postfrontal suture is triangular, the ocelli are equidistant from each other. The epiproct of the male consists of three plates. The subgenital plate of female is very wide at the base, tapering posteriorly (Fig. 7 A-C).
Distribution
Russia, Far East (Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). The species is recorded for China for the first time.
description: Published as part of Zhu, Ya-Fei, Rehman, Abdur, Yang, Xiao, Huo, Qing-Bo, Zeng, Liang-Liang, Teslenko, Valentina A. & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, New records of stoneflies (Insecta, Plecoptera) from the Greater Khingan Mountains, China, pp. e 151489 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e151489, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e151489