Asialassus amamiensis ( Kaszab, 1964 )

Nabozhenko, Maxim & Ando, Kiyoshi, 2018, Subtribal, Generic And Subgeneric Composition Of Darkling Beetles Of The Tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) In The Eastern Palaearctic Region, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 64 (4), pp. 277-327 : 312-314

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.64.4.277.2018
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scientific name	Asialassus amamiensis ( Kaszab, 1964 )
status	comb. nov.

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Asialassus amamiensis ( Kaszab, 1964) , comb. n.

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Kaszab, 1964: 7 ( Tarpela ); Chûjô, 1978a: 75 ( Tarpela ); Chûjô, 1978b: 14 ( Tarpela ); Masumoto, 1993: 136, figs 6. 12 ( Tarpela ); Nabozhenko & Löbl, 2008: 256 ( Tarpela ).

Type material examined. Holotype, f ( OMNH) with labels: “Ikari, Amami Is. 6.V.1960 T. Shibata”, “ Holotypus 1963 f Tarpela amamiensis Kaszab ”, “ Tarpela amamiensis Kasz. Dr Z. Kaszab det., 1963” . Paratypes, 1 f ( HNHM) with labels: “Ikari, Amami Is. 12.V.1960 T. Shibata”, “ Paratypus 1963 f Tarpela amamiensis Kaszab ”; 3 f ( OMNH) with labels: “Ikari, Amami Is. 6.V.1960 T. Shibata”, “ Paratype ”, “ f Tarpela amamiensis Kaszab Det. M. Chujo 1963 ”; 1 f ( OMNH) with labels: “Ikari, Amami Is. 22.V.1960 T. Shibata”, “ Paratype ”, “ f Tarpela amamiensis Kaszab Det. M. Chujo 1963 ” .

Material examined. 2 m ( CKA): Japan, Amami– Ôshima , Yuwan-dake Mt. , 13.iii.1988 (leg. S. Saitô); 1 m ( CKA), Mt. Yuwan, Amami Is., 26.iv.1964 (leg. K. Sako); 1 m ( CKA), Nishinakama, Amami Is., 7.iv.1969 (leg. Y. Maeda); 2 m ( CKA), Mt. Yuwan-dake, Amami- Oshima, 13.iii.1988 (leg. T. Yamasaki) ; 1 m ( CKA), Kikaijima Is., Nakanishi-Park , Amami islands, 4.iii.2012 (leg. Junichi Aoki); 2 f ( CKA), Hatsuno, Amami Is., 2.iv.1966 (leg. T. Ito) ; 1 f ( CKA), Amami Oshima , Hatsumo, 30.iii.1999 (leg. N. Ohbayashi); 1 f ( CKA), Japan: Amami-Oshima Is., Mt. Yuwan-dake (outside SPZ, alt. ca. 400 m), Yamato-son (beating: dead twigs), 8.iii.2010 (leg. M. Nishikawa) .

Distribution. Japan (The Ryukyus: Amami-Ôshima Is., Okinoerabu-jima Is., Okinawa-jima Is., Kikai-jima Is., and Ishigaki-jima Is.).

References

CHUJO, M. T. (1978 a): Tenebrionidae of the Nansei Islands III (Coleoptera). - Esakia 11: 63 - 80.

CHUJO, M. T. (1978 b): Tenebrionidae of the Nansei Islands IV (Coleoptera). - Esakia 12: 1 - 16.

KASZAB, Z. (1964): Uber die Tenebrioniden einiger japanischen Inseln (II). - Entomological Review of Japan 17: 1 - 10.

MASUMOTO, K. (1993): Notes and descriptions of Japanese Tenebrionidae, VI. - Entomological Review of Japan 48: 127 - 136.

NABOZHENKO, M. V. & LOBL, I. (2008) Tribe Helopini. Pp. 241 - 257. In: LOBL, I. & SMETANA, A. (eds): Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 5. Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup.

Figures

Fig. 19. Asialassus amamiensis, holotype, female: A = habitus, B = protibia, C = prothorax, ventral view, D = labels of the holotype

Fig. 20. Asialassus amamiensis, male, details of structure: A = head, B = prosternum, C = prosternal process, ventral view, D = prosternal process, lateral view