II. 2. Family Taeniopterygidae

A revisional work is now prepared by Shimizu. Generic assignments of the representatives of the families are mostly follows Ricker & Ross (1975).

Genus Obipteryx Okamoto, 1922

• Obipteryx Okamoto, 1922: 18. Type species: Obipteryx femoralis Okamoto, 1922.
• Kohnoperla Ricker & Ross, 1975: 137. Type species: Kohnoperla yugawae Kohno in Ricker & Ross, 1975 = Obipteryx yugawae Kohno, 1965. new synonymy!

   

1. Obipteryx sp. 1 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: TOGE-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

2. Obipteryx sp. 2 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Shikoku.
   Japanese name: NAGA-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

3. Obipteryx sp. 3 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: HOSO-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

4. Obipteryx femoralis (Okamoto, 1922) genotype.
   • Obipteryx femoralis Okamoto, 1922, p.17. " Ricker and Ross, 1975, p.140.

   
   Distribution: Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu.
   Japanese name: OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

5. Obipteryx sp. 4 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: OOTOGE-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

6. Obipteryx sp. 5 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: OKAMOTO-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

7. Obipteryx sp. 6 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: RIKKA-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

8. Obipteryx sp. 7 (Shimizu, submitted)

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: FUSA-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

9. Obipteryx tenuis (Needham, 1905)
   • Taeniopteryx tenuis Needham, 1905, p.110. " Okamoto, 1922, p. 19; Claassen, 1940; Illies, 1966.
   • Obipteryx tenuis, Ricker and Ross, 1975, p.140.

   
   Distribution: Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu.
   Japanese name: HIME-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

10. Obipteryx yugawae Kohno, 1965
    • Obipteryx yugawae Kohno, 1964, p.32. " Kohno, 1965, p.41; Illies, 1966, p.461.
    • Kohnoperla yugawae Kohno in Ricker and Ross, 1975, p.148. new synonymy!

Distribution: Honshu.
Japanese name: YUGAWA-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA

 

• Obipteryx o-notata (Okamoto, 1922) comb. nov.
  • Rhabdiopteryx o-notata Okamoto, 1922: p. 15. Claassen, 1940, p. 43; Kohno, 1957, p. 5; Illies, 1966, p. 66; Kawai, 1967, p. 54.
  • Doddsia o-notata, Zwick, 1973: p. 312. Kawai, 1976: p. 5.
  • Mesyatsia o-notata, Ricker & Ross, 1975: p. 138.
  • Obipteryx o-notata, Shimizu, submitted.

Genus Okamotoperla Ricker and Ross, 1975

• Okamotoperla Ricker and Ross, 1975, . Obipteryx zonata Okamoto, 1922, monotypy.

1. Okamotoperla zonata (Okamoto, 1922)
   • Obipteryx zonata Okamoto, 1922, p.18.
   • Okamotoperla zonata, Ricker and Ross, 1975, p.142. Shimizu, submitted.

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: YUGAWA-OBI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

Genus Mesyatsia Ricker and Ross, 1975

• Mesyatsia Ricker and Ross, 1975. Type species:

The first species looks similar to the M. makartchenkoi, the status is not uncertain at the present. The description of the undescribed species will be published after the problem of the first species is solved.

1. Mesyatsia sp. undescribed

   
   Distribution: Sachaline, Hokkaido.
   
   It is closely similar to Mesyatsia makartchenkoi Teslenko and Zhiltzova, 1992.

    

2. Mesyatsia imanishii (Uéno, 1929) species revival and new combination!
   • Taeniopteryx imanishii Uéno, 1929, 4, p. 140, fig. 21.
   • Rhabdiopteryx nohirae auct. Kawai, 1967 (nec. Okamoto, 1922), p. 51, figs. 27-29. Misidentification!

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: IMANISHI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

   Images: (adult photo)
   
   This species was synonymized with Strophopteryx nohirae by Kawai (1967). Though Ricker & Ross (1975) noted Kawai's nohirae is different from the real species, it is the species described as imanishii. The male different from the other species by lcking vesicle on sternite 9.

    

3. Mesyatsia sp. undescribed.

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: MIYAMA-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

4. Mesyatsia sp. undescribed.
   • Taeniopteryx japonica: Kohno, 1937, p. 260, figs. 1 & 2.

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: YUKI-SHITA-KAWAGERA.

Genus Strophopteryx Frison, 1934

• Strophopteryx Frison, 1934, . Type species: Strophopteryx fasciata (Buemeister).

   

1. Strophopteryx nohirae (Okamoto, 1922)
   • Rhabdiopteryx nohirae Okamoto, 1922, p.14, Taf. 2, figs. 3 and 4; type localities: Yoshino in Yamato and Osaka, Japan; types missing.
   • Doddsia nohirae, Zwick, 1973, p. 312.
   • Strophopteryx nohirae, Ricker and Ross, 1975, p. 143.

   
   Distribution: Honshu.
   Japanese name: SHITA-KAWAGERA.

    

2. Strophopteryx sp. undescribed.

   
   Distribution: Honshu.

Genus Taenionema Banks, 1905

• Taenionema Banks, 1905, . Type species: Taenionema analis Banks.

Stanger and Baumann (1993) reveiwed the genus on the world-wide scale, and provided the redescription of the following species.

1. Taenionema japonicum (Matsumura, 1904) species revival and new combination!
   • Nemura [sic] japonica Matsumura, 1904 (nec. Needham, 1905), p. 52. " Types, not designated, descrbed from Japan. This species have been regarded as published 1931 by Claassen (1936) and the succeeding authors. Actually, this name is proposed at least in 1904 and earlier than any other names used to this species.
   • Nemura [sic] japonica: Matsumura, 1907, p. 157. 1931; 1933, p. 18 & 28.
   • Rhabdiopteryx japonica Okamoto, 1922. " Kawai, 1967.
   • Nuria frigida Návas, 1930. Synonimized by Ricker and Ross, 1975.
   • Allonura frigida, Claassen, 1936. " Illies, 1966.
   • Nemoura misnoma Claassen, 1936, replaced name for Nemoura japonica Mats., 1931 by its primary homonym of Needham, 1905. " Claassen, 1940; Kohno, 1957, 1964; Kawai, 1960, 1967; Illies, 1966. Though this name is proposed by misunderstanding of the published year, it should be rejected by restatements of older publishments of japonica Matsumura.
   • Taeniopteryx japonicum, Uéno, 1929. " Claassen, 1940.
   • Rhabdiopteryx quadrata Koponen, 1949. Synonimized by Ricker and Ross, 1975. " Zapakina-Dulkeit, 1955, 1957, 1958; Illies, 1966.
   • Rhabdiopteryx frigida, Levanidova, 1970.
   • Taenionema frigida, Zwick, 1971. " Zwick, 1973.
   • Doddsia japonica, Zwick, 1973.
   • Nemoura misnosa [sic], Shimizu, 1997, lectotype designation for Nemoura misnosa [sic]. This misspelling name and the lectype designation is rejected.
   • Taenionema japonicum (Okamoto), Ricker and Ross, 1975. " Stanger & Baumann, 1993. Found by Shimizu (1997) as primary synonym of N. misnoma (misnosa [sic].)

Distribution: Hokkaido *Records from Honshu look doubtful.
Japanese name: YAMATO-SHITA-KAWAGERA
Other Japanese names: ONASHI-KAWAGERA (Mats. 1904, 1907), NAMI-HIME-KAWAGERA (Mats. 1933), NAMI-ONASHI-KAWAGERA (Kohno 1957 for misnoma).

Images: Matsumura, 1904, fig. 42 (habitus); 1907, pl. 10-4 (habitus); 1933, pl. 5-8 (habitus).

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