Rhopalopsole shennongjia Yang & Du, 2025

2.1.1. Rhopalopsole shennongjia Yang & Du , sp. nov.

2.1.1.1. Male. Body length: 6.2–6.3 mm, forewings length: 6.6–6.8 mm, and hindwings length: 4.1–4.3 mm. Head dark brown; wider than pronotum; ocelli pale brown; antennae and palpi light brown; pronotum brown, quadrate, with all angles rounded; legs dark brown; and wings hyaline with veins light brown ( Figure 1 View FIGURE 1 ).

Tergum 9 weakly sclerotized, with a wide, incised anterior margin that is more poorly sclerotized medially with a distinct transverse ridge medially in lateral view. Sternum 9 basally long, 1X longer than width, with subcircular vesicle bearing dense hairs. Tergum 10 bearing a big central plate that is evenly sclerotized. Transverse plates roughly oval with apical setae. Lateral projections of tergum 10 originating as a rounded base and extending upwards and backwards in a short plate, ending in a forked process, with the lower point slightly larger. Epiproct short, not tapering appreciably along its course, ending in a shallow wavy process. Subanal lobes medium sized, narrow at base, expanding distally, and then narrowing to the end. Cercus hairy and upcurved, without spines ( Figures 2 View FIGURE 2 and 3 View FIGURE 3 ).

2.1.1.2. Female. Subgenital plate, heavily sclerified, produced into a tongue-like extension with a rounded tip.

Sternum 8 with a pair of subtriangular plates is separated by a large membranous area ( Figure 4 View FIGURE 4 ).

2.1.1.3. Type of Materials. Holotype: male, China: Hubei Province, Shennongjia Forestry District, Muyu Town , 787 m, 31.396181N, 110.479157E, 2024-IV-20, leg. Yang Xiao and Zhu Ya-Fei. GoogleMaps Paratypes: 2 males and 3 females, same data as holotype. The specimens are deposited in ICYZU GoogleMaps .

2.1.1.4. Etymology. This new species is named after its type locality.

2.1.1.5. Diagnosis and Remarks. Rhopalopsole shennongjia sp. nov. is a member of the Rhopalopsole dentata Sivec and Harper, 2008 , west group as proposed by Sivec, Harper, and Shimizu [14], with tergum 10 of the adult male possessing a central plate with lateral bars strongly sclerotized, lateral projections typically ending in a forked process, epiproct simple and thick, and subanal lobes typical of this group. The new species is very similar to R. basinigra Yang & Yang, 1995 . The males of R. shennongjia sp. nov. and R. basinigra share the similar shape of subanal lobes and the shape of the lateral projections of tergum 10. In R. shennongjia , the epiproct is short, not tapering along its course; and the tergum 9 is weakly sclerotized, with a wide, incised anterior margin that is more poorly sclerotized medially. However, in R. basinigra , the tergum 9 has a distinct sclerotized area in the center; the end of epiproct is hook like.