Acanthacorydalis yunnanensis

Acanthacorydalis yunnanensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Megaloptera
Family: Corydalidae
Genus: Acanthacorydalis
Species:
A. yunnanensis
Binomial name
Acanthacorydalis yunnanensis
Yang & Yang, 1988

Acanthacorydalis yunnanensis is a species of dobsonfly endemic to China.[1]

Diagnosis

Of the Chinese species (except A. asiatica), A. yunnanensis is keyed out based on the following characters: The head and thorax with distinct yellow markings, body is brown to blackish, head with one pale yellowish spot around the ocellar triangle, male mandible with one subapical tooth.[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

Acanthacorydais 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): 1727. 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.