Biology:Acanthacorydalis unimaculata

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Acanthacorydalis unimaculata
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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). doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.812.1727. ISSN 2118-9773. Bibcode: 2022EJTax.812.1727M. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Liu, Xing Yue; Yang, Ding; Ge, Si Qin; Yang, Xing Ke (July 2005). "Phylogenetic review of the Chinese species of Acanthacorydalis (Megaloptera, Corydalidae)" (in en). Zoologica Scripta 34 (4): 373–387. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00197.x. ISSN 0300-3256. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00197.x. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2901779 entry