Microperla Chu, 1928, p. 197. Type species (by monotypy):
Microperla geei Chu.ñ Claassen, 1940, p. 129 (catalogue);
Kawai, 1958, p. 138.
Microperla brecicauda Kawai, 1958
Microperla brecicauda Kawai, 1958, p. 23, pl. 23, fig. 1-7
& pl. 24, fig. 1-5. Type collected from Kyoto. ñ Illies,
1966; Kawai, 1967, 1976, p. 6, fig. 1; Kawai & Isobe, 1985;
Inada, 1994, 1996.
Distribution: Honshu (Kinki District).
Japanese name: HIME-NOGI-KAWAGERA (new).
Other names: CHIBI-NOGI-KAWAGERA (original).
Images: Adults see Kawai (1958, 1967) and Inada (1996); nymphs
see Kawai & Isobe (1985) and Inada (1994).
Genus Cryptoperla Needham, 1909
Cryptoperla Needham, 1909, p. 197. Type species (by monotype):
Cryptoperla torva Needham.ñ Claassen, 1940, p. 152; Kohno,
p. 4.
Nogiperla Okamoto, 1912, p. 135. Type species (by original
designation): Nogiperla formosana Okamoto, 1912. ñ Claassen,
1940, p. 167. Synonym found by Uchida & Isobe (1988).
Neopeltoperla of Kohno, 1946a (nec. Kohno, 1946b). ñ
Type species: Peltoperla naka Uéno = Nogiperla japonica
Okamoto (synonym found Kohno, 1946b).
Peltoperlodes Kawai, 1968. Type species: Peltoperlodes bisaeta
Kawai. (synonym found Stark, 1989).
Distribution: Yaeyama Islands, Taiwan.
Images: Male (described as female) by Okamoto, 1912b.
Note: The nominal application of this species is questinable
since no one given recorded this species after the original description.
Neopertoperla ishigakiensis Kawai, 1968 probably be the
synonym of this species.
Cryptoperla japonica (Okamoto, 1912)
Nogiperla japonica Okamoto, 1912, p. 136. Syntypes collected
from Japan. Lectotype male collected from Hakone, Japan, designated
by Kohno, 1946. ñ Kohno, 1946; Uéno, 1959; Kawai,
1962; Chino, 1978.
Peltoperla naka Uéno, 1931, p. 100, fig. 6. ñ
Claassen, 1940. Syn, found Kohno, 1946a.
Peltoperla sp. Nr. 2 Kohno, 1938. ñ Associated with
the adult by Kohno, 1941.
Peltoperla zenzironis Kohno, 1941, p. 132, fig. 1-3. Syn,
found Kohno, 1945.
Distribution: Honshu & Tokunoshima Is.
Japanese name: NOGI-KAWAGERA
Images: The adult, nymph and egg of C. japonica was finely
illustrated in Uchida & Isobe (1988), and the nymphs are
also figured in Kawai & Isobe (1985), Inada (1994), etc.
Cryptoperla spec. A.
Distribution: Shikoku.
Note: This species is an undescribed species, and has been discovered
from Shikoku Island by several entomologists.
Cryptoperla spec. B.
Distribution: Okinawa Islands.
Note: This maybe the same species with C. japonica.
Genus Yoraperla Ricker, 1952
Cryptoperla Needham, 1909, p. 197. Type species (by monotype):
Cryptoperla torva Needham.ñ Claassen, 1940, p. 152; Kohno,
p. 4.
Nogiperla Okamoto, 1912, p. 135. Type species (by original
designation): Nogiperla formosana Okamoto, 1912. ñ Claassen,
1940, p. 167. Synonym found by Uchida & Isobe (1988).
Peltoperla japonica Uéno, 1929. Holotype male (Lost;
described as female), Gifu-Shiga boundary, Japan.
Peltoperla sp. nymph nr. 1 Uéno, 1929. ñ Associated
with the adult by Chino, 1978.
Neopeltoperla japonica, Kohno, 1945.
Nogiperla uenoi Kohno, 1946. Replacement of junior secondary
homonym.
Nogiperla japonica, Uéno, 1959 (in part). ñ
Kawai, 1962 (in part).
Nogiperla uenoi, Kawai, 1967. ñ Chino, 1978.
Yoraperla japonica, Kawai & Isobe, 1985. Reinstatement
of secondary homonym.
Yoraperla uenoi Uchida & Isobe, 1988. ó Stark
& Nelson, 1994, p. 257, fig. 55-62 (male and female terminalia,
pennis and egg).
Distribution: Honshu.
Japanese name: MIYAMA-NOGI-KAWAGERA.
Images: The adults, nymphs and eggs of Y. uenoi was finely illustrated
by Uchida & Isobe (1988) and Stark & Nelson (1994), and
the nymphs are also figured by Kawai and Isobe (1985) and Inada
(1994).
Yoraperla species A.
The species is discovered on the larva only collected from Amami-ohshima
Island, Ryukyus. This speceis is perhaps an undescribed species
from its collected place.
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