Acanthacorydalis asiatica Wood-Mason 1884

• Main Authors: Bolotov, Ivan N., Bespalaya, Yulia V., Gofarov, Mikhail Yu., Spitsin, Vitaly M., Tumpeesuwan, Sakboworn
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Megaloptera; Corydalidae; Acanthacorydalis; Acanthacorydalis asiatica; Arkhangelsk
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6131883; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6131883

Acanthacorydalis asiatica (Wood-Mason, 1884) (Figs 1–7) Corydalis asiatica Wood-Mason, 1884: 110. Type locality: “Naga Hills, N.E. frontier of India ”. Acanthacorydalis asiatica (Wood-Mason, 1884): Glorioso 1981: 282; Liu et al. 2005: 374; Yang & Liu 2010: 99. Material examined. 3 females, Myanmar, Kachin State, Nam Ru River valley (Mali Hka River Basin), near Wasandum village, 860 m alt., 27 ° 29 ” 41.7 ’ N, 97 ° 11 ” 23.5 ’ E, 18 th March 2014, mountain rainforest with bamboo patches in the river valley, at light, Bolotov, Gofarov, Spitsin & Vikhrev leg. The specimens are deposited in the Biological Museum of the Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Arkhangelsk, Russia (INEP). Diagnosis. Head dark yellow with distinct black marks on the clypeus, in ocellar triangle and at base of antennae; a pair of almost triangular black spots laterally on vertex; narrow black band or few irregular black spots along posterior margin of the head. Pronotum dark yellow with a large round black spot at each corner, between these spots a notable arrowhead-like yellow spot. Description of female. Body length 48–58 mm; forewing length 67–71 mm, hindwing length 60–61 mm. Head large, subquadrate and flattened, with two prominent postocular spines, and with pair of spines on the vertex (Fig. 1). Ground colour of the head dark yellow, with distinct black marks: one spot along clypeus, one spot in ocellar triangle, pair of spots around base of antennae, pair of almost triangular spots laterally on vertex, these spots connected with narrow black band (or few irregular black spots) along posterior margin of the head; spines black (Fig. 2). Ventral surface of head dark yellow, with pair of lateral brownish black spots (near spines) and three brownish black spots along posterior margin. Compound eyes brown, ocelli dark yellow. Antennae black, filiform. Mouthparts blackish brown, bearing short yellowish and black setae; labrum yellow with black edging and black central ...