Panorpa peterseana Issiki, 1927

Wang, Ji-Shen & Suzuki, Tomoya, 2022, Review of the Panorpa wormaldi group (Mecoptera: Panorpidae), with descriptions of two new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 794, pp. 18-39 : 22-23

Panorpa peterseana Issiki, 1927

Fig. 6

Panorpa peterseana Issiki, 1927: 2 , fig. 2a–b (type locality: Shinsuiei (= Jinshuiying), Formosa (= Taiwan), China).

Panorpa peterseana – Issiki & Cheng 1947: 11, figs 51–52. — Penny & Byers 1979: 380. — Hsu et al. 1999: 153. — Wang & Hua 2018: 296, figs 3-148-1, 3-148-2. — Bicha et al. 2020: 1001, fig. 2.

Diagnosis

This species is characterized by the following combination of features: 1) yellow occiput with a tridentshaped dark brown pattern; 2) wing markings reduced with an oblique and often unbranched pterostigmal band; and 3) male parameres trifurcated, with dorsal branch greatly elongated beyond middle portion of gonostylus, and bearing numerous long spines along inner margin.

Distribution

China: Taiwan (Chiayi, Nantou, Pingtung) ( Fig. 6 ).

Figures

Fig. 6. Distribution of the Panorpa wormaldi group.