Maritisma dispar ( Uchida, 1944 ) Smith & Mitchell, 2019

Smith, Graeme B. & Mitchell, Andrew, 2019, Species of Heterolepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) Found on some Remote Eastern Australian Islands, Records of the Australian Museum 71 (4), pp. 139-181 : 171

Maritisma dispar ( Uchida, 1944) n. comb.

Heterolepisma dispar Uchida, 1944: 185 .

Heterolepisma dispar , a species inhabiting coastal cliffs from the Japanese Island of Honshu, appears, from the original description and illustrations, to share many of the unusual characters such as the macrochaetae along the anterior margin of the frons, the short urotergite X, the long, spaced urosternal combs and the long parameres. The chaetotaxy of urosternite I was not mentioned but the species shares so much of the unusual morphology of H. coralinium sp. nov. that it is likely to also possess a medial comb. Both species lack a glabrous anterior margin to the frons, both have a very broad ultimate article to the labial palp, urotergite X is greatly reduced and they have unusually long urosternal combs with widely spaced macrochaetae. These characters differentiate them from the remaining species with medial combs on urosternite I. However, the illustration of Uchida suggests that the pronotal collar is complete in H. dispar . This Japanese species is here provisionally transferred to the new genus.