Panorpa okinawaensis Nakamura, 2009

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 : 27

Panorpa okinawaensis Nakamura, 2009

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Panorpa okinawaensis Nakamura, 2009: 337 , figs 2, 11–17 (type locality: Oku, Kunigami Village, Okinawa-jima, Ryukyu Islands, Japan).

Diagnosis

This species is superficially resembling Panorpa amamiensis Miyamoto & Makihara, 1984 , but can be readily differentiated from the latter by the following characters: in males, 1) gonostylus with basal process bearing two small teeth on mesial edge; 2) paramere bifurcated with a long and stout dorsal branch; 3) aedeagus with developed lateral process of dorsal valves; and in females, and 4) medigynium with axis twice longer than posterior arms.

Distribution

Japan: Okinawa (Okinawa-jima) ( 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.