Megaphthalma pallida (Fallén, 1819)

[Japanese name: Seobi-kiiro-funbae]

(Figs 28–29)

Cordylura pallida Fallén, 1819: 8 . Type-locality: “Westrogothis… Scania ” [Sweden].

Material examined. Hokkaido, 2 ♀, Iwanai Riv., Obihiro, Tokachi, 19. ix. 1995, leg. M. Iwasa. Diagnosis. This species is recognized by the following characteristics: frons, face, parafacial, and gena yellow; prescutum and scutum dark brown; postpronotum and thoracic pleura yellow; scutellum yellow with a pair of apical setae (Fig. 28); legs wholly yellow; abdominal tergites wholly yellow with narrow black line on each posterior margin (Fig. 29).

Body length (♀). 5.5–6.0 mm.

Distribution. Europe, Japan (Hokkaido), Russia (the European part, Siberia, the Far East) (Bagachanova et al., 2016), North America. New to Japan.

Remarks. Available specimens of this species are females, but as a result of my examination of specimens of M. pallida preserved in the Museum National d’Histoire naturelle (Paris), the characteristics agreed with those of female M. pallida .