Mimectatina meridiana subsp. ohirai Breuning & Villiers 1973

Mimectatina meridiana ohirai Breuning & Villiers, 1973 Fig. 1 A – F Host plant. Cycadaceae: Cycas revoluta Thunb. (Fig. 1 B – F) (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). 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). 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.