Greenarus nigripennis (Nakane & Ohbayshi, 1958) Nakane & Ohbayshi, 1958

Kazantsev, Sergey V., 2004, Phylogeny of the tribe Erotini (Coleoptera, Lycidae), with descriptions of new taxa, Zootaxa 496, pp. 1-48 : 34

Greenarus nigripennis (Nakane & Ohbayshi, 1958) , comb. n.

Benibotarus nigripennis Nakane & Ohbayshi, 1958: 80

Material studied: female, Japan, Mt. Kurodake, Kujyu, Oita Pref., 26.VI.1993, S.Ogata leg. ( KMPC).

Study of Benibotarus nigripennis previously placed in Laterialis (Kazantsev, 1992) , suggests that it must transferred to Greenarus as agreeing in all characters to the latter taxon. G. nigripennis has an aedeagus remarkably close to that of G. thoracicus , but it is distinguished from all congenerics, except differently coloured G. belokobylskii sp. n., which also has only one row of cells between the suture and primary costa 1, by the almost complete weakening of primary elytral costa 1, separable from secondary costae only in the basal eighth.