A new species of Protonemura Kempny, 1898 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the Ishizuchi range, Shikoku, Japan

Dávid Murányi; Maribet Gamboa; Kozo Watanabe

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.4

A new species of Protonemura Kempny, 1898 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae) from the Ishizuchi range, Shikoku, Japan

Zootaxa. 2020 Jan 3;4718(1):zootaxa.4718.1.4. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.4.

Authors

Dávid Murányi¹, Maribet Gamboa, Kozo Watanabe

Affiliation

¹ Department of Zoology, Eszterházy Károly University, Leányka u. 6, H-3300 Eger, Hungary. Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ehime University, Bunkyo-cho 3, 790-8577 Matsuyama, Japan.. d.muranyi@gmail.com.

PMID: 32230040
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.4

Abstract

A new species of the genus Protonemura Kempny, 1898 (Plecoptera: Nemouridae: Amphinemurinae) is described from the Ishizuchi Range of Shikoku Island, Japan, based on the male, female and Co1 sequences. Protonemura shimizui Murányi Gamboa sp. n. belongs to the P. orbiculata species group sensu Shimizu, 1998. The new species appears to be limited to the higher elevations of the Ishizuchi Range. Faunistic survey of the high elevation rheocrenes of the Ishizuchi Range is also presented.

Keywords: Plecoptera, adult morphology, cox1, high mountain rheocrenes, Protonemura shimizui sp. n..

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animals
Female
Insecta*
Japan
Male
Neoptera*