A new Epiophlebia (Odonata: Epiophlebioidea) from China with a review of epiophlebian taxonomy, life history, and biogeography

作者：Carle Frank Louis^*

来源：Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2012, 70(2): 75-83.

DOI：10.3897/asp.70.e31750

• Epiophlebia
• Rheoepiophlebia
• extinction
• biogeography
• living fossil

Epiophlebia diana sp.n. is described from larval specimens collected in the mountains of western Sichuan Province, China. Epiophlebian taxonomy, life history, and biogeography are reviewed, and keys provided for determination of the known adults and larvae of Epiophlebia Calvert, 1903. Classification of Epiophlebia is revised as follows: Epiophlebia s.str. with E. superstes (Selys, 1889) [type species] and E. sinensis Li & Nel, 2012; and Rheoepiophlebia subgen.n. with E. laidlawi Tillyard, 1921 [type species] and E. diana sp.n.. Behavioral, ecological and paleontological information is also evaluated and members of Epiophlebia acknowledged to have inhabited small high elevation streams of the east Palaearctic for possibly 180 million years. Likely reasons are proposed for the enduring survival of Epiophlebia, its lack of a fossil record and the extinction of related groups.

• 出版日期2012-9-28