Panorpa tsunekatanis Issiki, 1929

Figs 1E, 6

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).