Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang & Yang 1994
2.1.2. Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang & Yang, 1994. Rhopalopsole shaanxiensis Yang & Yang, 1994. Entomotaxonomia, 16 (3): 189. Rhopalopsole emeishan Sivec & Harper, 2008. Scopolia, 64: 79–80. 2.1.2.1. Description. This species was well described by Yang & Yang [44] (Figure 5) and was redescribed by Sivec, Harper, and Shimizu [14]. We provide color pictures of head and pronotum of the male adult and male terminalia for recognition of this species (Figures 6 and 7). 2.1.2.2. Material Examined. Three males, China, Hubei Province, Shennongjia Forestry District, 2024–IV–22, leg. Yang Xiao & Zhu Ya-Fei (ICYZU). 2.1.2.3. Distribution. China, Hubei; Shaanxi. This species has previously only been reported in Shaanxi, China. This is the first record for this species in Hubei Province, China. 2.2. Molecular Data. The genetic distance analysis and phylogenetic analysis showed that the male and female specimens of the new species differed by only 0.0046(0.46%), confirming their conspecificity (Table 2) (Figure 8).Rhopalopsole hamatais the species whose genetic distance was closest to the new species, with interspecific distance being 0.0942 (9.42%). In addition, the genetic distance of all other species was more than 10% and is different from the new species.
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- Yangzhou University (CN)
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- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2025-03-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15420154
- Primary Topic
- Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
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- article
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