Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen 1910

Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910 Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910: 85. Nemoura trispinosa Claassen, 1923: 289. Materials Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Xiao Yang; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 2EE0772D-FF21-5E04-81B9-84BFC182AF62; Taxon: scientificName: Nemoura arctica Esben-Petersen, 1910; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Plecoptera; family: Nemouridae; genus: Nemoura; specificEpithet: arctica; taxonomicStatus: valid; Location: continent: Asia; country: China; countryCode: CN; stateProvince: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; locality: HulunBuir city, Genhe city, Jinhe town; maximumElevationInMeters: 791; verbatimLatitude: 51.331111; verbatimLongitude: 121.491944; Identification: identifiedBy: Ya-Fei Zhu & Valentina A. Teslenko; Event: year: 2023; month: 5; day: 27; Record Level: language: en; institutionCode: ICYZU Diagnosis Males exhibit consistency with epiproct shape and characteristics across the Holarctic. The apical sclerite terminates laterally, bearing two short, thick spines. Male cerci are sclerotized laterally and terminate typically in a pair of appressed spines; they also have an outer spine (Fig. 3 A-F). Distribution Canada, USA, and Europe, including Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, Mongolia (DeWalt et al. 2024). Russia, north of the European part, Siberia, Far East (Teslenko and Zhiltzova 2009). The species is recorded for China for the first time.