Panorpa tsunekatanis Issiki, 1929

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 : 23

Panorpa tsunekatanis Issiki, 1929

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Panorpa tsunekatanis Issiki, 1929: 299 , figs 17–18 (type locality: Kamikōchi, Shinano, Honsiu (= Honshu), Japan).

Panorpa tsunekatanis – Penny & Byers 1979: 381. — Miyamoto 1988: 42. — Miyamoto & Nakamura 2008: 232, pl. 88, fig. 1360.

Diagnosis

This species can be differentiated from its relatives by the following characters: 1) wing markings very dense with a small circular spot near ending of CuP; 2) male hypandrium with a pair of very long hypovalves nearly three times as long as basal stalk; and 3) male parameres bifurcated, with dorsal branch stout and ventral branch extremely delicate and clubbed apically.

Distribution

Japan: Honshu (Aichi, Ishikawa, Nagano, Niigata, Shinano, Toyama, and Yamanashi) ( 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.