Issikiomartyria akemiae Hashimoto, 2006

Imada, Yume & Kato, Makoto, 2018, Descriptions of new species of Issikiomartyria (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae) and a new genus Melinopteryx gen. n. with two new species from Japan, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (2), pp. 1-25 : 14-17

Issikiomartyria akemiae Hashimoto, 2006 Fig. 16

Issikiomartyria akemiae Hashimoto, 2006: 70, fig. 20.

Material examined.

Lectotype: JAPAN [HONSHU] 5♂1♀ collected by MK on 8.VI.2009 at Kiyotsu-kyo, Niigata Pref (Fig. 19: 11), NMNS.

Description

(based on female). Head dark brown, naked and glossy on both side, sparsely covered with yellow pili form scales with dark yellow scales on vertex. Antenna longer than forewing in male. Labial palp 1-segmented.

Female abdomen and genitalia (Fig. 16). Segment IX forming a complete ring, strongly sclerotized, without lateral concavity. Segment X consisting of a pair of lateral sclerites and a dorsal sclerotized plate; lateral sclerites simple, as broad as long, with digitate projections having an apical seta at terminal inner margin. Corpus bursae large, membranous, with long narrow neck region anteriorly; with signa composed of four tridenta-form sclerites around neck region. Ductus spermathecae arising from a round concavity, forked in middle. Genital chamber with numerous tiny sclerites dorsally and a large fan-shaped sclerite ventrally.

Remarks.

I. akemiae can be distinguished by female genitalia having the ductus spermathecae forked in the middle.

Bionomics.

Larvae feed on the thalli of Conocephalum conicum .