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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FF0AF9924EC0333E" bold="true" box="[151,414,1551,1577]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">Macroscelesia japona</emphasis>
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, [South
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fung,
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, leg.
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], gen. prep. AK184 (
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11
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,
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is well-known from
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(
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Arita
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. 2016
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), but has also been recorded from
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(Arita et al., 2004). Recently, three species closely related to
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were described from the southern islands of
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(
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Arita
<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FF0AF97A4F9733E9" box="[151,201,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">et al</emphasis>
. 2016
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),
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FEB4F97A4E9833E9" box="[297,454,1767,1790]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">M. amamiana</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FD29F97A4C0833E9" box="[692,854,1766,1790]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">M. okinawana</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FB05F97A4A6033E9" box="[1176,1342,1767,1790]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">M. yaeyamana</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF8545D3FF9CFF93FAD8F97B4E6D3234" author="Arita" pageId="3" pageNumber="165" refString="Arita, Y., Kimura, M., Yata, N. &amp; Nagase, M. (2016) Vicariance in the Macroscelesia japona species - group (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) in the Ryukyus, Japan. Tinea, 23 (4), 184 - 198." type="journal article" year="2016">Arita &amp; Nagase, 2016</bibRefCitation>
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.
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It is currently unclear whether
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FDB7F8B24DFE3251" box="[554,672,1839,1862]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">M. japona</emphasis>
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occurs on the East Asian mainland. So far only one specimen has been recorded from
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EF8545D3FF9CFF93FE50F8CF4D3C327C" author="Kallies" box="[461,610,1874,1899]" pageId="3" pageNumber="165" refString="Kallies, A. (2007) A revision of the clearwing moth species described by Zukowsky from China with additional notes on Sesiidae species from the Mell collection (Sesiidae). Nota lepidopterologica, 30 (2), 387 - 396." type="journal article" year="2007">Kallies 2007</bibRefCitation>
). However, neither the precise collecting locality nor its identity could be fully established. Based on
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(as
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FD54F8EA4CCA3299" box="[713,916,1911,1934]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">M. eurytion sensu</emphasis>
Bartel, 1912
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[=
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9CFF93FBCDF8EA4BC03299" box="[1104,1182,1911,1934]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="165">japona</emphasis>
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]), the specimen was collected on the
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9.vi.
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in “Gao fung” (South
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). It was assigned to
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based on the external appearance (
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). However, the genitalia morphology in this Chinese specimen differs somewhat from that of typical Japanese specimens, leaving open the possibility that it may represent another species of the
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9BFF94FAE0FF044FBB35C3" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="166">M. japona</emphasis>
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group. Differences include the shape of the sclerotized area around the ostium, in particular its significantly longer plate-like distal extension (
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) and the longer ductus bursae (cf.
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Arita
<emphasis id="B960E430FF9BFF94FBD1FF7C4B2135EF" box="[1100,1151,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="166">et al</emphasis>
. 2016
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). Therefore, more material is needed to firmly establish the identity of the mainland populations of
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<emphasis id="B960E430FF9BFF94FBA1FE984BEC340B" box="[1084,1202,261,284]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="166">M. japona</emphasis>
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. This would also be critical for the material from
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, which has not been examined in detail (Arita
<emphasis id="B960E430FF9BFF94FBB0FEB44B033457" box="[1069,1117,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="166">et al</emphasis>
. 2004).
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