Mimectatina meridiana ohirai Breuning & Villiers, 1973

Mimectatina meridiana ohirai Breuning & Villiers, 1973 View in CoL

Fig. 1 A – F View Figure 1

Host plant.

Cycadaceae : Cycas revoluta Thunb. (Fig. 1 B – F View Figure 1 ) ( Kato 2001). The wood tissues of Toddalia asiatica (L.) and Aucuba japonica Thunb. are used as hosts ( Coleopterological Society of Japan 1984).

Leaf mine.

Linear or linear-blotch mines in the megasporophyll of female cycad plants (Fig. 1 E View Figure 1 ). The larva sometimes penetrates the testa of the cycad seed. Pupation occurs within the mine on the leaf stalk of the megasporophyll (Fig. 1 D, F View Figure 1 ). Frass is granular and deposited within the mine.

Material examined.

• 25 adults, Hedo , Kunigami, Okinawa Is., Okinawa Pref., 1-II-1998 (collected as larva on Cycas revoluta ), emerged on 3-III – 20-VI-1998 ; • 7 adults, Hedo , Kunigami, Okinawa Is., Okinawa Pref., 10-III-1997 (as larva on C. revoluta ), emerged on 25-IV – 20-VI-1997 ; 2 adults, Hedo , Kunigami, Okinawa Is., Okinawa Pref., 19-IV-2000 (as larva on C. revoluta ), emerged on? - V- 2000 ; • 8 adults, Angyaba , Kakeroma Is., Setouchi, Kagoshima Pref., 10-V-2001 (as larva on C. revoluta ), emerged on 12–28-VI-2001 .