Hyperxiphia hirashimai ( Okutani, 1965 )

Alshanberi, Asim M, Mousa, Ahmed H, Hashim, Sama A, Almutairi, Reem S, Alrehali, Sara, Hamisu, Aisha M, Shaikhomer, Mohammed & Ansari, Shakeel A, 2022, New Collection and Host Plant Records for Six Xiphydriidae (Hymenoptera) from Japan, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (2), pp. 85-88 : 85

Hyperxiphia hirashimai ( Okutani, 1965)

Genaxiphia hirashimai Okutani, 1965: 74 ; Hyperxiphia hirashimai : Shinohara and Yamasako, 2020:

405.

See Shinohara and Yamasako (2020) for more references.

Specimens examined. KYUSHU: Kagoshima Pref.: 4 ˁ, Ôkuchiaoki, Isa-shi , 4. VIII. 2021, R . Okano; 1 ˁ, Amami-ôshima Is., Naze, Koshuku, 28°21′45.0″N 129°27′50.0″E, 270 m alt. trail through forest, 3. VII. 2021, J. Okayasu, by sweeping bush; 1ˁ, same data except 7. VII. 2021 .

Remarks. This species has been recorded from Miyake-jima Island in the Izu Islands, Shikoku (Ehime Prefecture), Kyushu (Kumamoto and Kagoshima Prefectures), and Kuroshima Island, Yakushima Island, Amami-ôshima Island and Okinawa-jima Island in the Nansei Islands based on a total of nine female and eight male specimens listed by Shinohara and Yamasako (2020). The six newly acquired specimens, all males, are from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture and Amami-ôshima Island.