Panorpa amamiensis Miyamoto & Makihara, 1984

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 : 26

Panorpa amamiensis Miyamoto & Makihara, 1984

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Panorpa amamiensis Miyamoto & Makihara in Miyamoto, 1984: 2, figs 5–7, pl. 3, fig. c (type locality: Mt. Yuwan-dake, Amami-Oshima, Japan).

Panorpa amamiensis – Miyamoto 1988: 42, fig. 3. — Nakamura 2009: 334, figs 1, 4–10.

Diagnosis

This species is similar to Panorpa longiramina Issiki & Cheng, 1947 in the greatly reduced wing markings, but can be readily differentiated from the latter by the following characters: 1) wings with reduced basal and pterostigmal bands and marginal spot (cf. only a small spot near pterostigma); and 2) male parameres bifurcated (cf. trifurcated).

Distribution

Japan: Kagoshima (Amami) ( Fig. 6 ).

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus of the Panorpa wormaldi group, males. A. Panorpa wormaldi MacLachlan, 1875. B. P. striata Miyaké, 1908. C. P. multifasciaria Miyaké, 1910. D. P. kiusiuensis Issiki, 1929. E. P. tsunekatanis Issiki, 1929. F. P. gressitti Byers, 1970. G. P. amamiensis Miyamoto & Makihara, 1984. H. P. okinawaensis Nakamura, 2009. I. P. tokunoshimaensis Nakamura, 2009. ©Ji-Shen Wang (F) and Tomoya Suzuki (A–E, G–I).

Fig. 6. Distribution of the Panorpa wormaldi group.