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Acanthacorydalis sinensis

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

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

Diagnosis

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Of the Chinese species (except A. asiatica), A. sinensis is keyed out based on the following characters: Body blackish brown, head and prothorax concolorous and prothorax 1.4 times (male) and 1.1 times (female) longer than wide at midlength. The male ninth tergum undivided with an arcuate incision at the base.[2]

Taxonomy

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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

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  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.