This article contains a draft of the report "Record of the Okinawa White-bordered Long-horned Stink Bug on Yakushima Island," which was published in the following journal.
Citation method: Ikeda, Kenichi. 2021a. Record of *Okinawa white-bordered long-horned bug* on Yakushima Island. Monthly Insect Magazine 600: 61. ISSN: 0388-418X
This article was written assuming the first record of the Okinawa white-bordered stink bug (Okinawa shiro-beri naga-kame-mushi) on Yakushima Island.
There may be minor changes in wording, but the cited references remain the same. For more accurate information, please refer to the journal.
Distribution status of Okinawa white-legged worm in Japan
Elasmolomus squalidus (Gmelin, 1790) is distributed in Shikoku, Koshikijima (Shimokoshikijima), Osumi Islands (Kuchinoerabujima), Tokara Islands (Nakanoshima, Takarajima), Amami Islands (Amami Oshima, Tokunoshima, Yoronjima), Okinawa Islands (Okinawa Main Island, Kumejima), Kerama Islands (Zamami Island, Akajima, Kubajima), Miyako Islands (Miyakojima), Yaeyama Islands (Ishigaki Island, Iriomote Island, Hateruma Island); Taiwan, southern China, the Oriental region, and tropical Africa (Ishikawa and Tomokuni, 2012; Ishikawa, 2016). It has also been recorded in Kuroshima, Kagoshima Prefecture (Nakamine et al., 2007), but there appear to be no known records of it in Yakushima.
A record of the author's time in Yakushima.
I photographed this species on the coast of Nagata, Yakushima, around 5 PM on November 28, 2017, and report it here.
1 ex. (Photo), Nagata, Yakushima-cho, Kumage-gun, Kagoshima Prefecture, 28. 11. 2017, photographed by the author.
The insect was observed wandering on the sandy beach. Vegetation included Rosa luciae f. glandulifera (Koidz.), Wollastonia dentata (H.Lév. et Vaniot), Viola mandshurica var. triangularis (Franch. et Sav.), and Vitex rotundifolia Lf. This species is known to be terrestrial and common on coastlines (Yasunaga et al., 1993), and this appears to be a similar case.
References
Ishikawa, T. and Tomokuni, M., 2012. Family: Lycidae. In: Ishikawa, T., Takai, M. and Yasunaga, T. (eds.), Illustrated Guide to Japanese Stink Bugs: Terrestrial Stink Bugs, Vol. 3: 321-362. National Rural Education Association, Tokyo.
Nakamine, Koji, Eihira, Kenji, and Imamura, Hisao. 2007. Insects found in Kuroshima, Mishima Village, Kagoshima Prefecture in July 2006. Research Bulletin of the Kagoshima Prefectural Museum 26: 89-101.
Ishikawa, Tadashi, 2016. Family: Lycaenidae. In: The Japanese Insect Catalog Editorial Committee (ed.), Japanese Insect Catalog, Vol. 4, Neoptera: 459-469. Kaika Shobo, Tokyo.
Yasunaga, Tomohide; Takai, Mikio; Yamashita, Izumi; Kawamura, Mitsuru; and Kawasawa, Tetsuo, 1993. Illustrated Guide to Japanese Stink Bugs in Color: Terrestrial Stink Bugs, Vol. 1. National Rural Education Association, Tokyo.
