Nipponeurorthus flinti U. Aspoeck & H. Aspoeck , 2008

Aspoeck, Ulrike, Aspoeck, Horst & Liu, Xingyue, 2017, The Nevrorthidae, mistaken at all times: phylogeny and review of present knowledge (Holometabola, Neuropterida, Neuroptera), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 77-110 : 86

Nipponeurorthus flinti U. Aspoeck & H. Aspoeck, 2008 Figs 4e; 9 g–i; 16

Nipponeurorthus flinti U. Aspöck & H. Aspöck, 2008b: 818 (odescr, figs: wings, gs male, distrmap); Liu et al. 2014 (key, fig: distrmap). In the heading of the original description (U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck 2008b: page 818) it is erroneously written " Austroneurorthus flinti ". This is a lapsus calami.

Type locality.

Japan (Okinawa: Yonagawa, Yona).

Male.

Body length 5.0-5.3 mm; forewing length 6.5-8.5 mm, hindwing length 6.0-6.6 mm.

Head yellow. Antennae yellow. Mouthparts yellow; mandibles with brownish tips.

Thorax yellow. Legs yellow. Wings transparent, immaculate, with pterostigmatic areas dark yellow. Veins yellow, with costal crossveins slightly darker.

Abdomen yellow. Gonocoxite 9 robust on proximal half, with a small hairy tubercle on inner surface; distal half strongly incurved, with an obtuse ventral lobe; gonostylus 9 spinous and forked at tip. Ectoproct broad, directed posteriorly. Complex of gonocoxites + gonostyli + gonapophyses 10 rather small; lateral arms much longer than distal projections, strongly sinuate, and distinctly widened posteriorly; distal projections slenderly digitiform, rather close to each other, each projection laterally with a feebly sclerotized flat lobe. Gonocoxites 11 present as a simple, transverse, sclerotized band; gonostyli 11 as posteriorly bifurcated sclerite.

Female.

Unknown.

Specimens examined and records published.

Supplementary material 1. Holotype male (by original designation): Japan, "Okinawa: Kunigami-gun upper Yonagawa, Yona 26°45.0'N, 12"8°13.3'E, 25 March 1997 O.S. Flint, Jr." (NMNH).

Biology and ecology.

Adults have been taken in March and May. No data concerning vertical distribution are available.

Distribution.

Japan (Okinawa, Amamioshima).