Abstract
A new species of Ficalbia was found in the 1978 mosquito collections from Iriomote Island of Okinawa. Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. The genus is the first record from Japan. Three males easily distinguished from all known species of the genus by maxillary palpus and IX lergum of genitalia are described and illustrated in detail. This study is based on materials collect· ed by Dr. I. Miyagi in 1978 during an extensive faunal survey of mosquitoes in Ryukyu Archipelago. Japan (Toma and Miyagi. 1986). In the study. three adult male specimens of the genus Ficalbia. that apparently have not been described so far, were collected by light trap in Iriomote Island (Miyagi and Toma. 1980; Toma and Miyagi. 1986). Because of limited materi· also naming of the specimens was deferred until additional specimens were available (Toma and Miyagi, 1986). In this study, the specimens were carefully compared to all the seven known species of the genus Ficalbia by descriptions and illustrations (Ludlow, 1907; Theobald, 1901, 1908, 1910; Edwards. 1941; Mattingly. 1949. 1957; Hamon, 1954; Grjebine. 1986; Chen, 1997) and confirmed as a new species. Ficalbia is a small genus of Culicidae and all the included seven species are known from the Ethiopian Region. the Oriental Region and China (Mattingly. 1957; Knight and Stone. 1977; Grjebine.
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