New species of moths that mimic a bee

Teinotarsina aurantiaca

New species of moths that mimic a bee
ハチに擬態した新種のガ
テイノタルシナ アウランティアカ

 Yagi teiou of the Kyushu University graduate school for 1 year which found a moth just like a bee in Kunigami-son in Okinawa-kita part on May 30, 2015 (They're a goat and Sada day.), make, (23). The moth was named "Teinotarsina aurantiaca (TEINOTARUSHINAAURANTIAKA)" by a new kind of the first checked TEINOTARUSHINA genus in Japan. When it was found, I arrived in Okinawa in the 28th for an investigation of a moth of "MOGURICHIRIGA family" and was observing a plant along a path through a forest.


■ It isn't how to fly a bee.
 I found that a bug like a long-legged wasp is flying by about 70 centimeters of height around 3:00pm on the 30th. I tried to pass, but I felt "Isn't it any different lesser peach tree borer?", returned and collected by an insect net. Mr. Yagi, "The hind leg is lowered and it's done flickeringly, if, it was different from the long-legged wasp which flies and a hind leg was extended to the back, and it was flying straight slowly. It may be the one for which it was difficult to notice that I'm not a bug lover. Whether lesser peach tree borer in the net is a new kind without the remembrance judged from an illustration book, a heart was excited.", I look back.
 Prof. Hirowatari Toshiya of Kyushu University graduate school returns to Fukuoka and begins to collaborate Yutaka Arita honorary professor of Meijo University. I found out with a moth of a new kind.


■ The feature of the moth of a new kind
 It's thought that it's to protect oneself against a natural enemy of a bird by imitating in a bee with a poison needle that peach tree borer generally imitates it in a bee. The moth of mimesis-ized peach tree borer family TEINOTARUSHINA genus is distributed over a bee in Taiwan and China. When it was compared with this new kind and Taiwanese related species, the copulation container was very similar, but the appearance was just different. Black and light orange stood out for Taiwanese related species, but also orange stood out for a found moth. The tendency which becomes darker-colored and the agreement which are seen by much of the bee which lives in Okinawa-honto. Mr. Yagi and others concluded that there was a possibility that they undergo geographical influence by a thesis.
 Diversity of a relation of a moth in Ryuukyuurettou and a Chinese continent and the insect which ranges there isn't investigated sufficiently. Mr. Yagi and others would like also to continue the investigation from now on and do an origin of the insect which lives in Japan clearly.

■ Anxiety of Mr. Yagi is national park-ized.

 He meets Prof. Hirowatari of a specialist of a moth, and Mr. Yagi who liked a butterfly originally has begun to study in earnest from a university for 3 years. About charm of a moth, "Of the classification a study isn't advancing so much, it's also mothy and when a new kind is found, you can name and, it also leads to a study of a harmful
 2015年5月30日、沖縄北部にある国頭村で、まるでハチのようなガを発見した九州大学大学院1年の屋宜禎央(やぎ・さだひさ)さん(23)。そのガは日本で初めて確認されたテイノタルシナ属の新種で、「Teinotarsina aurantiaca(テイノタルシナ アウランティアカ)」と命名した。発見当時は「モグリチリガ科」のガの調査のため、28日に沖縄入りし、林道沿いの植物を観察していた。
沖縄タイムズの記事よりhttp://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20160315-00000016-okinawat-oki

コメント