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Issue: Vol. 5653 No. 3: 27 Jun. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-06-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5653.3.3
Page range: 343-363
Abstract views: 128
PDF downloaded: 4

Epiophlebia laidlawi daliensis, a new subspecies from Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan (Insecta, Odonata, Epiophlebiidae)

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Dali University; Yunnan 671003; China.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution; Kunming Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; China.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; China.; Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; Yunnan 650223; China.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution; Kunming Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; China.; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; China.; Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; Yunnan 650223; China.
Rt Hutou 14; Longfeng Street; Guangdong; China.
Art Education Center of Tianjin University; Tianjin; China.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Dali University; Yunnan 671003; China.
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Dali University; Yunnan 671003; China.
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution; Kunming Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; China.; Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; Yunnan 650223; China.; Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Information.
Yunnan Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Information.; Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology; Kunming Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Kunming; Yunnan 650223; China.
Odonata Anisozygoptera Epiophlebia new subspecies phylogenetic relationships Hengduan Mountains

Abstract

A new subspecies Epiophlebia laidlawi daliensis Zhang, Yang, Wei & Lyu, subsp. nov. is described from adult and larval specimens collected at Mt Cangshan in the Hengduan Mountains, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. The holotype male was collected by Hao-miao Zhang and Rui-bin Song on 22 May 2022. Both sexes and larva of the new subspecies are compared with those of Epiophlebia l. laidlawi Tillyard, 1921 and E. superstes (Selys, 1889). A total of 15 sequences of ITS1 and 17 sequences of ITS2 were analysed and used for the phylogenetic comparisons. According to this analysis, E. l. daliensis subsp. nov. and E. l. laidlawi share a very close phylogenetic relationship, while E. l. daliensis, subsp. nov. and E. superstes are genetically more distant from one another than are E. l. laidlawi and E. superstes. Both neighbor-joining (NJ) and maximum likelihood (ML) methods produced consistent phylogenetic trees, with all E. l. daliensis specimens clustering with E. l. laidlawi. The existence of the named ‘species’ E. sinensis Li & Nel, 2012 (which in molecular analyses is retrieved within E. superstes) is considered doubtful, hence it is not considered here. Its status will be evaluated in another publication.

 

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How to Cite

Yang, G.-H., Wei, Y.-Y., Li, Z.-F., Song, R.-B., Wen, Y.-C., Li, X.-L., Zi, D.-D., Lyu, X.-M. & Zhang, H.-M. (2025) Epiophlebia laidlawi daliensis, a new subspecies from Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan (Insecta, Odonata, Epiophlebiidae). Zootaxa, 5653 (3), 343–363. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5653.3.3