Panorpa obliquifascia Chou & Wang, 1987

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 : 26-27

Panorpa obliquifascia Chou & Wang, 1987

Fig. 6

Panorpa obliquifascia Chou & Wang in Chou et al., 1987: 206, fig. 7 (type locality: Mangshan Mountains, Yizhang, Hunan, China).

Panorpa obliquifascia – Wang & Hua 2018: 291, figs 3-144-1, 3-144-2.

Diagnosis

This species can be recognized by the following characters: 1) wing markings slightly reduced with an oblique pterostigmal band; 2) male hypandrium with long and broad hypovalves exceeding apex of gonocoxites; 3) male parameres bifurcated with a short glabrous ventral branch and a long bristlebearing dorsal branch; and 4) female medigynium with a very broad dorsal plate and a greatly elongated axis.

Distribution

China: Guangdong (Nanling Mountains) and Hunan (Mangshan Mountains) ( Fig. 6 ).

Figures

Fig. 6. Distribution of the Panorpa wormaldi group.