Pygophora confusa Stein, 1915

(Figs. 3a–d, 12)

Pygophora confusa Stein, 1915: 54 . Lectotype male (Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg, Germany), by designation of Crosskey (1962: 54). Type locality: Tainan, Taiwan.

Redescription. Male. Differing from P. boninensis as follows: frontal vitta creamy yellow; first flagellomere 2.3–2.7 times as long as pedicel; wing brownish hyaline without brown spot; mid tibia with 1 anterodorsal seta; abdominal tergite 5 with three black spots; abdominal sternite 5 without short projection at inside; cerci not bifurcated apically; postgonite slender at middle; phallus nearly straight apically. Female. Differing from male as follows: first flagellomere brownish yellow apically; hind tibia without posteroventral seta and apical lobe; abdominal tergite 3 with three black spots; abdominal tergite 5 without dorsal keel. Female terminalia. Very similar to P. boninensis .

Body length. 5.0–6.0 mm.

Material examined. JAPAN: 1 male (EUM), Mishimachi, Noichi city, Kôchi pref., 6. VII. 2002 ; 1 male (BLKU), Mitoma, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka pref., 26. X. 1995 ; 1 male and 5 females (BLKU), Motooka, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka pref., 4. VI. 2011 ; 1 female (BLKU), same locality to the preceding data, 23. IX. 2011; 1 female (BLKU), Mt. Koushidake, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka pref., 31. V. 2011 ; 5 males (NIAES), Kasari, Amami city, Amami-Ôshima Is., Kagoshima pref., 27. XI. 1963 ; 1 male (BLKU), Kayo, Nago city, Okinawa pref. [N 26°33’10” / E 128°6’26”], 27. VI. 2013 ; 8 males and 2 females (BLKU), Siramizu, Ishigaki city, Ishigakijima Is., Okinawa pref. [N 24°25’19” / E 124°9’50”], 22–30. V. 2012 ; 3 males (BLKU), same locality to the preceding data, 11. VI. 2014; 1 male (NIAES), Sonai, Taketomi town, Iriomotejima Is., Yaeyama-gun, Okinawa pref., 6. I. 1953 .

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Ryukyu), China, Taiwan, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan.

Bionomics. This species was found and collected by the first author in a grassland and rice paddy field.

Remarks. This species resembles Pygophora immaculipennis Frey, but it is distinguished from the latter by having a lobe of the hind tibia in male and brownish yellow first flagellomere in female.