Acanthacorydalis unimaculata

Acanthacorydalis unimaculata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Megaloptera
Family: Corydalidae
Genus: Acanthacorydalis
Species:
A. unimaculata
Binomial name
Acanthacorydalis unimaculata
(Yang & Yang, 1986)

Acanthacorydalis unimaculata is a species of dobsonfly found in China and possibly Vietnam.[1]

Description

Of the chinese species (except A. asiatica), A. unimaculata is keyed out based on the following characters: Body brown to blackish brown with distinct yellow markings on the head and thorax (not concolorous), head with one yellowish spot before ocellar triangle and male mandible without subapical tooth, and only one yellowish spot around ocellar triangle.[2]

Taxonomy

This is a phylogeny of the Chinese Acanthacorydalis species (except A. asiatica), following the most parsimonious tree in Liu et al., 2005.[2]

Acanthacorydalis

Acanthacorydalis orientalis

Acanthacorydalis yunnanensis

Acanthacorydalis unimaculata

Acanthacorydalis fruhstorferi

Acanthacorydalis sinensis

References

  1. ↑ Martins, Caleb C.; Ardila-Camacho, Adrian; Rivera-Gasperín, Sara Lariza; Oswald, John D.; Liu, Xingyue; Contreras-Ramos, Atilano (2022-04-08). "A world checklist of extant and extinct species of Megaloptera (Insecta: Neuropterida)". European Journal of Taxonomy (812). Bibcode:2022EJTax.812.1727M. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.812.1727. ISSN 2118-9773.
  2. 1 2 Liu, Xing Yue; Yang, Ding; Ge, Si Qin; Yang, Xing Ke (July 2005). "Phylogenetic review of the Chinese species of Acanthacorydalis (Megaloptera, Corydalidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 34 (4): 373–387. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00197.x. ISSN 0300-3256.