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KAMIMURIA GRESSITTI, A NEW STONEFLY SPECIES FROM CHINA (PLECOPTERA: PERLIDAE), AND NEW RECORDS OF K. ATRA FROM VIETNAM
Bill P. Stark1 and Ignac Sivec2
1 Box 4045, Department of Biology, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi 39058, U.S.A.
E-mail: stark@mc.edu
2 Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Prešernova 20, P.O. Box 290, SL0-1001 Ljubljana, Slovenia
E-mail: isivec@pms-lj.si
ABSTRACT
A new species of Kamimuria, based on male and female specimens collected in 1948 by J.L. Gressitt and colleagues in Hubei Province, China, is described and compared to related species of the genus. New provincial records are also given for K. atra Sivec & Stark from Cao Bang and Nghe An, Vietnam.
Keywords: Kamimuria, Plecoptera, Perlidae, China, Vietnam, new species, new distributional records
INTRODUCTION
Sivec & Stark (2008) published the most recent major study of the Oriental-Eastern Palearctic genus Kamimuria Klapalek, 1907 in which 41 species were considered valid and another 18 nominal species were placed as nomen dubia. Subsequently, Li et al.
(2012),	Sun & Du (2012) and Wang et al. (2013) have added 4 new species and two nomen dubia have been redescribed by Sun & Du (2012), bringing the current list to 47 species. However, another 12 species described by Du (2006), Du & Ran (2002), Du & Sivec (2004, 2005) and Du & Wang (2005, 2007) were overlooked by Sivec & Stark (2008), and DeWalt et al.
(2013)	include several more older names on their list which we regard as nomen dubia, or as members of other genera (e.g. Paragnetina, Sivec et al 2013, in manuscript). In the current study we recognize another previously undescribed Kamimuria species collected in 1948 in Hubei Province, China during the California Academy of Sciences-Lignand University
Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) Expedition directed by J.L. Gressitt (Radovsky 1983). We also present additional provincial records from Vietnam for K. atra Sivec & Stark. Table 1 presents a list of 34 Chinese Kamimuria we consider as valid species; another 13 nominal Chinese Kamimuria species considered as nomen dubia are also included on the list (DeWalt et al. 2013; Sivec et al. 1988; Sivec & Stark 2008).
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The Chinese specimens were previously determined as "Perla melli (Wu)" by S.G. Jewett, Jr., in the 1960's, and remained in his collection after his death, until forwarded to R.W. Baumann some years later. The single vial, containing a male and female, was included in a lot of miscellaneous stonefly specimens sent to me by Professor Baumann and will be deposited with the California Academy of Sciences. The Vietnamese specimens were among
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Table 1. Systematic list of Chinese Kamimuria, nomen dubia listed in bold.
Species Name	Date	Authors	Provincial Locality
acutispina	1973	Wu	Yunnan
amoena	1912	Klapálek	Shaanxi (?)
bimaculata	2005	Du & Sivec	Gansu
bispina	2005	Du, in Du & Wang	Guizhou
brevilata	2002	Du, in Du & Ran	Guizhou
brunneicornis	1921	Klapálek	Jiangxi
cheni	1948	Wu	Guangxi
chingtechenensis	1935	Wu	Jiangxi
chungnanshana	1938	Wu	Shaanxi
coarctata	1912	Klapálek	Beijing
crassispina	1948	Wu	"Chengtu"
digyracantha	2012	Du & Sun	Henan
extremispina	2006	Du	Guizhou
fulvescens	1912	Klapálek	Gansu
gressitti	2013	Sp. nov.	Hubei
guangxia	2013	Li & Wang	Guangxi
hainana	2012	Li, Wang & Yu	Hainan
huangi	2005	Du & Sivec	Gansu
infumata	1936	Navás	Gansu
integra	1916	Klapálek	Gansu
jeanneli	1935	Wu	Zhejiang
kirinensis	1938	Wu	"Kirin"
lii	2002	Du, in Du & Ran	Guizhou
liui	1940	Wu	?
longispina	1948	Wu	"Kwangsi"
magna	1938	Wu	Shanxi
magnimacula	2005	Du, in Du & Wang	Guizhou
manchuriana	1938	Wu	Liaoning
maolanensis	2002	Du, in Du & Ran	Guizhou
melli	1935	Wu	Guangdong
miaolingensis	2007	Du & Wang	Guizhou
microda	2002	Du, in Du & Ran	Guizhou
nigrita	1962	Wu	Yunnan
orthogonia	1962	Wu	Sichuan
pronotalis	1934	Navás	Sichuan
radialis	1934	Navás	Gansu
ramosa	1936	Navás	Gansu
robusta	1948	Wu	Fujian
simplex	1929	(Chu)	Zhejiang
sparsula	2001	Du in Du et al.	Zhejiang
taoi	1936	Wu	"Kwangsi"
tenuispina	1948	Wu	"Chengtu"
tergistigma	2004	Du, in Du & Sivec	Guangxi
trapezoidea	1962	Wu	Yunnan
tuberosa	1973	Wu	Sichuan
wangi	2012	Sun & Du	Shaanxi
yangi	2005	Du & Sivec	Gansu
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unstudied material on loan from the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (ROM).
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Kamimuria atra Sivec & Stark
Kamimuria atra Sivec & Stark 2008:111. Holotype S (Slovenian Museum of Natural History), Chiang Mai Province, Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand
Material examined. VIETNAM: Cao Bang Province, Ba Be National Park, jct Lake Ba Be road and trail to
ethnic village, 18 May 1995, D. Currie, J. Swann, 1 $ (ROM 956068). Lao Cai Province, tributary Muong Hao Ho River, 15 km E Sapa, 926 m, uv light, 10 May 1995, D. Currie, B. Hubley, J. Swann, 1$ (ROM 956033). Nghe An Province, ca. 25 km SW Con Cung, Khe Moi Forestry Camp, tributary Khe Moi River, 18° 56' N, 104° 49' E, 308 m, 4 June 1995, B. Hubley, J. Swann, 1$ (ROM 956158). Same site, 6 June 1995, B. Hubley, 1$ (ROM 956172).
Comments. This species was previously reported from several sites in Thailand, and from Lao Cai and Vinh Phu provinces, Vietnam. The new Vietnamese provincial records are from Cao Bang and Nghe An.
Figs. 1-5. Kamimuria gressitti male genitalia. 1. Terga 9-10. 2. Right hemitergum, lateral aspect. 3. Aedeagal apex, dorsal. 4. Aedeagus, lateral. 5. Aedeagus, ventral.
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Kamimuria gressitti, sp. nov. (Figs. 1-8)
Material examined. Holotype ^ and paratype $ from CHINA, W. Hupeh (Hubei Province), Lichuan District, Suisapa, 1000 m, 23 August 1948, J.L. Gressitt, Djou (California Academy of Sciences). Adult Habitus. Three ocelli. Color pattern apparently pale brown, without distinctive pattern, but obscured by specimen condition. Wings pale, veins pale amber.
Male. Forewing length 20.5 mm. Hemitergal lobes slender, finger-like, bluntly rounded at the apex and bearing a small patch of sensilla basiconica along ventroapical margins (Figs. 1-2); hemitergal lobes meet in median field of tergum 10 in dorsal aspect, and approach anterior margin of tergum 10; in lateral aspect a slight ventral swelling occurs near midlength of hemitergal lobes (Fig. 2). Tergum 9 with a median patch of sensilla basiconica; sterna 4-6
with well developed hair brushes. Aedeagus membranous, relatively straight, but constricted subapically, near midlength, and at base of aedeagal tube (Fig. 4); armature extensive on subapical sac portion, consisting of a circular band of sharp, triangular spines; band narrowly divided medially on dorsal surface and more broadly on ventral surface; fine microtrichia occur in a pair of apicolateral patches (Figs. 3-4) and similar patches occur ventrally on the middle tube section (Fig. 5) and ventrally on the basal envelope section (Fig. 5). Female. Forewing length 22 mm. Subgenital plate a short, triangular projection, barely reaching the anterior margin of sternum 9 (Fig. 6), and bearing a small median notch. Vagina membranous but partially lined with pale setae around wide posterior section at gonopore; anterior section slightly narrower from midlength, and bearing a prominent, balloon-like spermatheca on a slender stalk (Fig. 7).
6	7	8
Figs. 6-8. Kamimuria gressitti female genitalia. 6. Abdominal sterna 8-9. 7. Vagina and spermatheca. 8. Outline of egg.
Egg. Length ca. 0.41 mm, width ca. 0.24 mm. flanged collar (Fig. 8). Chorion smooth. Somewhat barrel shaped with short, wide, slightly Larva. Unknown.
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Etymology. The patronym honors the late J. Linsley Gressitt, distinguished Coleopterist and Naturalist, director of the "Dawn Redwood Expedition", and co-collector of the type series of this species. Diagnosis. The aedeagal armature size and general aedeagal shape is somewhat similar to that of K. similis Klapalek (Sivec & Stark 2008), however the new species lacks the enlarged pair of dorsal spines found in K. similis, and the hemitergal lobes of the latter species bear an abrupt subapical notch not found in the new species. There is also a general similarity with K. atrocephala Sivec & Stark, however that species has a more extensive patch of lateral spines along the aedeagal tube and sac, and a small patch of sensilla basiconica on tergum 8. Unfortunately, the provisional key in Sivec & Stark (2008) is based, in part, on pigment patterns and is therefore, unsuitable for specimens like these which have obscure pigmentation.
Kamimuria nigrita Wu
Kamimuria nigrita Wu 1962:140. Kamimuria nigita Wu 1962:144. Misspelling Kamimuria nigrita: Illies, 1966:632. Perla nigrita:Zwick, 1973:264. Comments. In Wu's (1962) original description, this species is referred to as K. nigrita in the list on page 140, and as K. nigita on page 144 in association with the original description. Illies (1966), as first reviser, and Zwick (1973) both use the species name, nigrita.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank R.W. Baumann for his help in acquiring the Chinese specimens, and B. Hubley and the Royal Ontario Museum for loaning the Vietnamese material for our study. P. Zwick is thanked for his comments on K. nigrita.
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