Panorpa gressitti Byers, 1970

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 : 25-26

Panorpa gressitti Byers, 1970

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Panorpa gressitti Byers, 1970: 390 , figs 10–13 (type locality: Tao-Kok-Wan (= Caojiaowan), Lungtau Shan (= Mt. Longdou), Kwangtung (= Guangdong), China).

Panorpa gressitti – Penny & Byers 1979: 378. — Wang & Hua 2018: 268, fig. 3-129-1, 3-129-2.

Diagnosis

This species is similar to Panorpa implicata Cheng, 1957 and Panorpa obliqua Carpenter, 1945 in the V-shaped patter formed by marginal spot and pterostigmal band, but can be readily differentiated from the latter two by the following characters: 1) scutella yellowish and distinctly paler than nota (cf. dark); 2) male gonostylus with basal process bifurcated (cf. unfurcated); and 3) female axis extremely short without distinct apodemes (cf. well-developed with distinct apodemes).

Distribution

China: Guangdong (Conghua, Shaoguan, Shixing) ( 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. 4. Habitus of the Panorpa wormaldi group. A–B. P. gressitti Byers, 1970, ♂, dorsal and left-lateral views, respectively. C–D. P. zhuohengi sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (DALU) dorsal and left-lateral views, respectively.

Fig. 6. Distribution of the Panorpa wormaldi group.