Scleropteroides horridulus ( Voss 1958 ) Korotyaev & Yoshitake & Huang, 2014

Korotyaev, Boris A., Yoshitake, Hiraku & Huang, Junhao, 2014, A taxonomic note on Homorosoma horridulum Voss, 1958 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), with new records from Taiwan, Zootaxa 3786 (1), pp. 99-100 : 99

Scleropteroides horridulus ( Voss 1958) , comb. nov.

Homorosoma horridula Voss 1958: 67 (type locality: China, “ Kuatun ”) (incorrect original spelling).

Homorosoma horridulum: Colonnelli 2004: 34 (catalogued; China, Japan) (mandatory correction, gender agreement).

Specimens examined. CHINA: FUJIAN. Holotype, male, “Kuatun, Fukien, China, 4.5.46 (Tschung Sen,)” (printed, date written in ink); “Type Homorosoma horridula det. Voss, n. sp. ” (red; “ Type ” printed); “ horridula Voss ” (typed on a narrow white label); “4901 E91 +” (printed blue label); “Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm, loan no 844/06” ( SMNH). TAIWAN. 4 males, Taichung Co., Wushikan Forest Research Station, 3-VI-1997, C. W. and L. B. O’Brien ( CWOB, ZIN). 1 female, Hualien Co., Piluchi Forest Research Station , 2100 m, 26-V-1997, C. W. and L. B. O’Brien ( CWOB). 1 male, Nantou, Sungkan – Meifeng, 25–26-V-1972, M. Sakai ( EUMJ). 1 male and 1 female, Nantou, Nanshanchi, 20–23-III-1995, H. Kojima and M. Suehiro ( NIAES). 1 male, Mt. Guandaoshan , 16-V-1986, I. Matoba ( NIAES). 1 male, Taoyuan, Mt. Daguanshan , 4-IV-1991, H. Kojima ( NIAES). 1 male and 4 females, Maifeng, 2150 m, 26-IV-1983, H. Townes ( CMNC, ZIN). 3 males, 1 female, as above, but 10-V-1983 ( CMNC, ZIN). 1 female, as above, but 15-V-1983 ( CMNC). 1 male and 1 female, Wushe, 1150 m, 29-IV-1983, H. Townes ( CMNC).

Distribution. China (Fujian, Taiwan – new record), Japan.

Comments. The holotype of Homorosoma horridula was dissected and remounted by the first author on a card. It is in good condition except that the right hind leg is missing and the two apical ventrites of the abdomean are detached and glued on the card with the specimen. After a short treatment with a cold 10% KOH the aedeagus was placed in a microvial with glycerol and pinned with the holotype. No type (or any other) material was found by the first author in the A. Koenig Museum in Bonn in 2000. Until the present paper, Scleropteroides was considered a monotypic genus including S. hypocrita ( Hustache 1916) , which is known to occur in South Korea and Japan ( Morimoto 1989; Korotyaev & Hong 2004; Yoshitake et al. 2004). Scleropteroides horridulus clearly differs from S. hypocrita mainly in having the longer scales on the elytra and the male aedeagus with a truncate apex, but it is very similar in general appearance to S. insularis (Voss) treated by Colonnelli (2004) as a junior synonym of S. hypocrita . A revision of Scleroperoides (Huang et al. in preparation) will elucidate species distinctions within the genus.