Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011

Yang, Xiao & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, Further studies on the morphology of three species of Rhopalopsole (Plecoptera, Leuctridae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 154980-e 154980 : e154980-

Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 74C14315-0843-5241-A949-FEA0B9D76F50; Taxon: scientificName: Rhopalopsole ampulla ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; genus: Rhopalopsole ; specificEpithet: ampulla ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Yanhe; locality: Shaba ; verbatimElevation: 903 m; verbatimLatitude: 28.364549 N; verbatimLongitude: 108.379991 E

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 47DB17F6-BA99-5514-AFD8-44A1CB5858A6; Taxon: scientificName: Rhopalopsole ampulla ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; genus: Rhopalopsole ; specificEpithet: ampulla ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Yanhe; locality: Shaba ; verbatimElevation: 903 m; verbatimLatitude: 28.364549 N; verbatimLongitude: 108.379991 E

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 89A5D3FF-BE29-516A-BD13-648630C9D849; Taxon: scientificName: Rhopalopsole ampulla ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; genus: Rhopalopsole ; specificEpithet: ampulla ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Yanhe; locality: Shaba ; verbatimElevation: 903 m; verbatimLatitude: 28.364549 N; verbatimLongitude: 108.379991 E

Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: occurrenceID: 1079CCEC-C33C-53F3-B407-7C8A17244304; Taxon: scientificName: Rhopalopsole ampulla ; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; genus: Rhopalopsole ; specificEpithet: ampulla ; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Yanhe; locality: Shaba ; verbatimElevation: 903 m; verbatimLatitude: 28.364549 N; verbatimLongitude: 108.379991 E

Re-description

Brown and dark brown. Head brown or dark brown, wider than prothorax, hind ocelli much closer to eyes than to each other, antennae and palpi brown. Prothorax dark brown, quadrate, longer than wide, all angles rounded and some black irregular stripes on it. Legs light brown. Wings hyaline and veins light brown. Forewing length 8 mm, body length 8.5 mm. Tergum 9 sclerotised with a large, medial membranous area, a sclerotised, semicircular process present posteromedially. Sternum 9 with a subgenital plate wider than long and rounded apically, basally with a tongue-like vesicle bearing dense hairs. Tergum 10 with one large broad median mid-anterior sclerite; mid-posterior more sclerotised and protrusive; one pair of transverse sclerite weakly sclerotised. Lateral processes each strongly sclerotised, spine-like rather than thick basally, narrowed apically and downward in lateral aspect. Epiproct curved forward, thick and blunt apically. Subanal lobe strongly sclerotised at base, trident-like apically in ventral aspect and membranous at its apex. Cerci long and cylindrical, ampulla - like, thick basally and thin apically, each with a tiny spine (Figs 1 a, 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ).

Figures

Figure 2. Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011. A Male terminalia, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, ventral view; C Male terminalia, lateral view. (Cited from Qian and Du (2011)).

Figure 3. Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011, holotype. A Male terminalia, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, lateral view; C Male terminalia, ventral view.

Figure 4. Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011, paratype a. A Male terminalia, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, lateral view; C Male terminalia, ventral view.

Figure 5. Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011, paratype b. A Male terminalia, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, lateral view; C Male terminalia, ventral view.

Figure 6. Rhopalopsole ampulla Du & Qian, 2011, paratype c. A Male terminalia, dorsal view; B Male terminalia, lateral view; C Male terminalia, ventral view.