2003.03.29. updated

Molobratia japonica (Bigot, 1878)

[synonymy]

Dsypogon japonica Bigot, 1878, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 5, 8: 411; Coquillett, 1898, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 21: 312.
Dasypogon japonicum: Matsumura, 1905,Thousand Ins. Jap., 2: 77; Matsumura, 1931, 6000 Ill. Ins. Jap., 429; Shiraki, 1932, Iconogr. Ins. Jap., 129; Shiraki, 1950, Iconogr. Ins. Jap., reform., 1598.
Dasypogon japonicus: Kertesz, 1909, Catal. Dipt., 4: 129.
Dasypogon takasagense Matsumura, 1916, Thousand Ins. Jap., Addit. 2: 322.
Molobratia japonica: Hisamatsu, 1965, Iconogr. Ins. Jap. Col. Nat. Ed., 3: 202; Lehr, 1988, Catal. Pal. Dipt., 5: 223; Nagatomi, A., Imaizumi & Nagatomi, H., 1989, Zoological Science, 6(5): 988.

[distribution]

Japan: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
Palae:/Asia/J/C/?/

[characteristics]

[notes]

Male

Female

Head

Scutellum