Paraleuctra zapekinae Zhiltzova, 1974

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, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 151489-e 151489 : e151489-

Paraleuctra zapekinae Zhiltzova, 1974

Paraleuctra zapekinae Zhiltzova, 1974: 360

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: individualCount: 10; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; disposition: ICYZU; occurrenceID: 9CE13161-BA4E-5C46-8FA3-D235BCA28FE1; Taxon: scientificName: Paraleuctra zapekinae Zhiltzova, 1974 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda;; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera ; family: Leuctridae ; genus: Paraleuctra ; specificEpithet: zapekinae ; taxonomicStatus: Valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Heilongjiang; locality: Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, Xinlin District, Dawusu town ; maximumElevationInMeters: 471; verbatimLatitude: 51.768247; verbatimLongitude: 124.512166; Identification: identifiedBy: Xiao Yang; Event: year: 2023; month: 6; day: 6; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU

Diagnosis

Male cerci are slightly swollen at the base, sharply curved and directed medially with their apices; the ventral tooth of the cerci without an additional tooth and the dorsal tooth posteriorly has a short tooth and bluntly bifurcated apex (Fig. 2 A-C).

Distribution

Russia, Siberia, Far East ( Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). Mongolia ( DeWalt et al. 2024). The species is recorded for China for the first time.

Figures

Figure 2. Paraleuctra zapekinae Zhiltzova, 1974. A male head and pronotum; B-C male terminalia, dorsal and ventral view.