Suzukielater babai ( Kishii & Ôhira, 1956 )

Arimoto, Kôichi & Itô, Reo, 2018, Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Tanegashima Island (Ryukyu Islands, Japan), Check List 14 (4), pp. 681-692 : 687

* Suzukielater babai ( Kishii & Ôhira, 1956)

Sphenimerus babai Kishii and Ôhira 1956: 82 .

Suzukielater babai ; Kishii 1987: 10.

Material examined. 1♂, Site11, SLT [18A061]; 50♂, 9♀, Site 13, looking and picking up from rotting wood [18A062–18A120] ( Fig. 4E).

Species diagnosis. Ôhira (2001b).

Remarks. Suzukielater babai has been recorded from 11 locations in Japan ( Ôhira 2002b, Kido 2004, Ozaki et al. 2006). Tanegashima Island is the twelfth collecting locality of this species. This species was found only twice on the Pacific coast side of Japan ( Ôhira 2002b, Kido 2004, Kido and Oda 2004).

Ôhira (2001b) mentioned a record of this species from “Iki Island, Fukuoka Prefecture ”, referring to Miyata et al. (1977). In fact, Miyata et al. (1977) recorded this species from “Okinoshima Island, Fukuoka Prefecture ”, and Iki Island is in Nagasaki Prefecture. Ôhira (2002b) revised the mention in Ôhira (2001b) as from “Okinoshima Island, Fukuoka Prefecture ”. Kido (2004) stated that there is a record of this species from Iki Island, but his statement seemed to be based on the error in Ôhira (2001b).

Bionomics. At Site 13, some adults and larvae were found in rotting wood lying on a sandy beach ( Fig. 2E, F). Many adults were found at night on the surface of rotting wood on the same beach. We will report the details of the ecology and morphology of this species in another paper.