Scaphisoma obliquemaculatum Motschulsky, 1863

Löbl, Ivan, 2015, On the Scaphidiinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Revue suisse de Zoologie 122 (1), pp. 75-120 : 111

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.14582
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5745301
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scientific name	Scaphisoma obliquemaculatum Motschulsky, 1863
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Scaphisoma obliquemaculatum Motschulsky, 1863 View in CoL

Additional material examined: SMNS, MHNG; 2 ♂, 1 ♀; Indonesia, W. Sumbawa Batudulang , 30 km S of Sumb. Besar, 1000 m Bolm lgt. 10. Febr. 1994.

Distribution: Tropical Asia from Sri Lanka to Vietnam, Great Sunda Islands, Lesser Sunda Islands: Sumbawa, Mascarene Archipelago.

Comments: The species was redescribed and its aedeagus illustrated in Löbl, 1971. The female from Batudulang has a reddish anterior part of the elytron clearly separated from yellowish elytral apex by a dark transverse band, as other specimens coming from different areas. The two males from Batudulang differ by the elytra uniformly dark from their bases upto the yellowish apical bands.