Hoplosternus kinoshitai Tesař, 1938

Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2010, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (1), pp. 279-320 : 294

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scientific name	Hoplosternus kinoshitai Tesař, 1938
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Treatment

Hoplosternus Kinoshitai Tesař, 1938: 165 , Figs. 1–2.

Four paratypes are deposited in NMPC (general collection, ex coll. V. Balthasar, ex coll. B.

Kouřil and ex coll. Z. Tesař):

PARATYPE (J): ‘Unzen / bei Shimabara / Japan [p] // TYPUS [p, red label] // Hopl. / kinoshitai / n. sp. [hw] / Det. Tesař [p]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘Unzen / bei Shimabara / Japan [p] // ex coll.Zdeněk Tesař / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // Paratypus [p] / Hoplosternus / kinoshitai J / m. n. sp. [hw] / Dr. Tesař Det. 19 [p] 38 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Unzen / bei Shimabara / Japan [p] // TYPUS [p, red label] // Hopl. / kinoshitai / n. sp. [hw] / Det. Tesař [p] // coll. Kouřil / P5/46/62 [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Unzen / bei Shimabara / Japan [p] // TYPUS [p, red label] // Hoplosternus / kinoshitai ♀ / n. sp. [hw] / Zd. Tesař det. [p] // ex. coll. V. Balthasar / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Melolontha satsumaensis satsumaensis Niijima

& Kinoshita, 1923, see, e.g., NOMURA (1952) and FUJIOKA (2001).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Melolonthidae
Genus	Hoplosternus