Panorpa taiwanensis Issiki, 1929b
Diagnosis: This is one of the Taiwanese species of Panorpa in which males have narrow hypovalves with deep medial cleft. The ventral parameres are unbranched, but with a short process near the setiferous apex. Dorsal lobes of aedeagus apically bilobed and rounded. Meso-and metanota with broad, pale, medial stripe.
Distribution – Geographical: Originally described from Mt. Rantaisan, 3-5 June 1927, S. Issiki, 3♂♂ (depository ?); Mt. Arisan ( = Alishan), 30 August, J. Sonan and K. Shibata, 2♂♂ (depository ?). An additional ♀ from Mt. Rantaisan, collected on 3 June 1927 by S. Issiki and deposited in NTU was designated allotype by Issiki and Cheng (1947). Yie (1951) recorded this species from Bōkyōzan, 2300 m, August; and Arisan (= Alishan), 2200 m, September.
Distribution – Temporal: This species has been collected in June, August, and September.
Ecology: The Alishan locality is high, cool, moist, montane forest.
Biology: Yie (1951) indicates that there are 27.7 eggs per egg cluster..
Notes: This species is named for the island of Taiwan. Apparently no lectotype has ever been designated from the type series.
References:
Issiki, S. 1929. Descriptions of new Mecoptera from the Japanese Empire.Transactions of the Natural HistorySociety of Taiwan, 19:260-314.
-----. 1965. Notes on some Mecoptera from Formosa. Special Bulletin of the lepidopterological Society of Japan, 1:245.
Issiki, S. and F.-Y. Cheng. 1947. Formosan Mecoptera with Descriptions of New Species. Memoirs of the College of Agriculture, national Taiwan University, 1:1-17.
Yie, S.-T. 1951. The Biology of Formosan Panorpidae and Morphology of Eleven Species of their immature Stages. Memoirs of the College of Agriculture, National Taiwan University, 2(4):1-111.
