Redescription of two species of Neoperla Needham, 1905 (Plecoptera, Perlidae) and new distribution records of Neoperla mnong Stark, 1987 in China

Abstract

Two species of Neoperla from Guizhou Province, China, N. bituberculata Du, 2000 and N. dashahena Du, 2005 were described with brief morphological descriptions available only in Chinese and original illustrations being somewhat blurry. Recently, we examined type material of these two species and re-described them with clear colour pictures for the first time. In this paper, detailed English descriptions and colour pictures of Neoperla bituberculata and N. dashahena are provided for the first time. The type locality of N. mnong Stark is from Vietnam and its geographical distribution is also discussed. Additionally, we also recorded the distribution of N. mnong Stark, 1987 in Guizhou, Hunan and Jiangxi Provinces of China for the first time and provided a geographical distribution map of this species.