Platylomalus niponensis Lewis 1899

Platylomalus niponensis (Lewis, 1899) Lewis, 1899: 21 (Type locality: Japan; orig. comb.: Paromalus niponensis); Cooman, 1937: 142; Nakane, 1963: 69 (Platylomalus); Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt, 1976: 274; Mazur, 1984: 135 (catalogue); 1997: 183 (catalogue); ��hara, 1994: 180 (redescription, figures, photos); 1999: 117; L��bl & Smetana, 2004: 75 (catalogue). Synonymy: Paromalus complanatus: Lewis, 1892 a: 33 (wrong identification). Paromalus niponicus (sic!): Lewis, 1915: 56 (Horisha). Material examined. No collecting data: 2 females (Y. Miwa det.); CHINA: Hubei: 3 males, 8 females, Shennongjia, Jiuchonggangou, 1240 m, net screen, 1998. VII. 18, Haisheng Zhou coll.; 1 male, 1 female, Shennongjia, Jiuchonggangou, 1240���1800 m, net screen, 1998. VII. 18, Haisheng Zhou coll.; Sichuan: 13 males, 14 females, Baoxing, Ruobigou, 1600 m, dead maple, 2003. VIII. 13, Jie Wu coll.; 3 males, 4 females, Baoxing, Qingshangou, 1900 m, dead wood, 2003. VIII. 6, Jie Wu coll. Distribution. China (Hubei, Sichuan, Taiwan); Japan.

Published as part of Zhang, Ye-Jun & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2007, Taxonomy of the tribe Paromalini Reitter (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Dendrophilinae) from China, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 1544 on page 18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.177968

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