Bolbelasmus shibatai Masumoto, 1984

Li, Chun-Lin & Wang, Chuan-Chan, 2024, A systematic review of the genus Bolbelasmus Boucomont (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Bolboceratinae) from Indochina and surrounding areas, ZooKeys 1191, pp. 287-305 : 287

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1191.114021
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F412786C-54D1-408D-8BC7-D630A05F086F
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scientific name	Bolbelasmus shibatai Masumoto, 1984
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Bolbelasmus shibatai Masumoto, 1984 View in CoL

Bolbelasmus shibatai Masumoto, 1984: 75. Original combination (type locality: Amami Oshima Island, Japan); Nikolajev, Král and Bezdӗk 2016: 33 (catalog).

Distribution.

Japan (Amami oshima and Okinawa island).

Remarks.

Populations of B. shibatai are restricted to a few small islands in the southwestern archipelagos of Japan. Males possess strongly sclerotized parts of the parameres that can be distinguished from the similar species, B. coreanus .