Kamimuria magnimacula Du, 2005

Zeng, Liang-Liang, Huo, Qing-Bo & Du, Yu-Zhou, 2025, Three new synonyms of the genus Kamimuria (Plecoptera, Perlidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 153697-e 153697 : e153697-

Kamimuria magnimacula Du, 2005

Kamimuria magnimacula Du, 2005 in Du & Wang, 2005: 53, 57. Stark & Sivec, 2013: 117. Yang & Li, 2018: 30. Kamimuri hunanensis Li & Li, 2022: 119. syn. nov.

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Zhijie; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous; locality: Da Shahe National Nature Reserve ; Event: year: 2004; month: 8; day: 22; Record Level: language: en

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Wang Zhijie; individualCount: 2; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; Location: country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Daozhen Gelao and Miao Autonomous; locality: Da Shahe National Nature Reserve ; Event: year: 2004; month: 8; day: 22

Distribution

China (Guizhou, Hunan)

Taxon discussion

It has been twenty years since the last report of K. magnimacula from Guizhou Province, currently, only hand-drawn illustrations of this species are available. To facilitate future identification efforts, we conducted a detailed examination of the type materials of K. magnimacula . However, due to its preservation in alcohol for twenty years, the sclerotised spot on the penis tube is no longer clearly visible (Fig. 4 ). During this process, we found that the description and illustrations of K. hunanensis (see fig. 8 in Li and Li (2022)) from Hunan Province are highly consistent with those of K. magnimacula (Figs 3 , 4 ). Additionally, Guizhou Province borders Hunan Province and the type localities of these two species are relatively close, being only about 280 kilometres apart (Fig. 8 ). Therefore, we consider K. hunanensis as a synonym of K. magnimacula in this paper.

Figures

Figure 3. Kamimuria magnimacula, male holotype. A dorsal habitus; B head and pronotum, dorsal view; C abdominal terminalia, dorsal view.

Figure 4. Kamimuria magnimacula, holotype, everted penis. A dorsal view; B lateral view; C ventral view. Kamimuria magnimacula shares the same data as holotype, D dorsal view; E lateral view; F ventral view.

Figure 8. Distribution of Kamimuria extremispina and K. magnimacula. (K. extremispina = K. circumspina syn. nov. = K. dabieshana syn. nov. and K. magnimacula = K. hunanensis syn. nov.).