A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China

BACKGROUND: Sweltsa is a genus of green stoneflies in the family Chloroperlidae and is distributed throughout the Nearctic and East Palaearctic Regions. As they are sensitive to pollutants, they are often used as an indicator species for determining the quality of water bodies. There are around 57 s...

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Autores principales: Rehman, Abdur, Huo, Qing-Bo, Du, Yu-Zhou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2022
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9033749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35586254
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e80433
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Huo, Qing-Bo
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description BACKGROUND: Sweltsa is a genus of green stoneflies in the family Chloroperlidae and is distributed throughout the Nearctic and East Palaearctic Regions. As they are sensitive to pollutants, they are often used as an indicator species for determining the quality of water bodies. There are around 57 species of this genus worldwide and 11 of those have been identified from China. NEW INFORMATION: A new species of the Alloperlini genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943, Sweltsaligula Rehman, Huo & Du sp. n. is described from Kuankuoshui National Natural Reserve, Suiyang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. This is the first report of the family Chloroperlidae from Guizhou Province. Diagnosis, description of male, female and nymph, illustration of terminalia and similarities with closely-related species are provided and discussed.
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spelling pubmed-90337492022-05-17 A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China Rehman, Abdur Huo, Qing-Bo Du, Yu-Zhou Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper BACKGROUND: Sweltsa is a genus of green stoneflies in the family Chloroperlidae and is distributed throughout the Nearctic and East Palaearctic Regions. As they are sensitive to pollutants, they are often used as an indicator species for determining the quality of water bodies. There are around 57 species of this genus worldwide and 11 of those have been identified from China. NEW INFORMATION: A new species of the Alloperlini genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943, Sweltsaligula Rehman, Huo & Du sp. n. is described from Kuankuoshui National Natural Reserve, Suiyang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. This is the first report of the family Chloroperlidae from Guizhou Province. Diagnosis, description of male, female and nymph, illustration of terminalia and similarities with closely-related species are provided and discussed. Pensoft Publishers 2022-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9033749/ /pubmed/35586254 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e80433 Text en Abdur Rehman, Qing-Bo Huo, Yu-Zhou Du https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Taxonomic Paper
Rehman, Abdur
Huo, Qing-Bo
Du, Yu-Zhou
A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title_full A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title_fullStr A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title_full_unstemmed A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title_short A new species of the genus Sweltsa Ricker, 1943 (Plecoptera, Chloroperlidae) from Guizhou Province, China
title_sort new species of the genus sweltsa ricker, 1943 (plecoptera, chloroperlidae) from guizhou province, china
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9033749/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35586254
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e80433
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