A new species of Isoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae) from China

Abstract

A new species of the perlodid genus, Isoperla Banks, I. sejila sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the Tibet Autonomous Region of southeastern China. The everted aedeagus of the male is described and the relationships with other species of this genus known from China are discussed.

The species of Tibetisoperla (Plecoptera: Perlodidae)

“…The type species of Tibetisoperla, T. wangluyui Huo & Du, 2021 is a dark species and has a reduced vesicle on sternum 8, but the new species is a brownish species and has a developed vesicle which is present in typical Isoperla Banks, 1906(Teslenko & Zhiltzova 2009Murányi 2011;Szczytko & Kondratieff 2015;Cao et al 2020), another genus of Isoperlinae in China. However, the large apical setae of tergum 10 and spiny apical sclerite of paraproct clearly show its placement in Tibetisoperla.…”

Morphological and molecular characterisation of the Popijač’s Yellow Sally, Isoperla popijaci sp. nov., a new stenoendemic stonefly species from Croatia (Plecoptera, Perlodidae)

“…Basic characteristics by which the species within the genus Isoperla are distinguished are penial morphology, head and pronotal pattern, egg structures and drumming signals (Despax 1936;Illies 1952Illies , 1954Illies , 1966Sivec and Stark 2002;Murányi 2011;Michalik et al 2017). In the last few years, a considerable number of new Plecoptera taxa have been described, especially from China (Li et al 2013;Ji et al 2014;Li and Murányi 2015;Chen et al 2019;Cao et al 2020), but also in Europe, like Isoperla pesici Murányi, 2011; I. autumnalis Murányi, 2011;I. citrina Murányi, 2011 (Murányi 2011;Murányi et al 2016); I. vjosae Graf et Vitecek, 2018(Graf et al 2018; I. claudiae Graf et Konar, 2014(Graf et al 2014 and I. nagyi Murányi, Kovács et Graf, 2020(Murányi et al 2020.…”