Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821 Author Soldati, Laurent Author Kergoat, Gael J. INRA - UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier Supagro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F- 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex (France) soldati @ supagro. inra. fr kergoat @ supagro. inra. fr fr@supagro.inra.fr Author Condamine, Fabien L. Mathématiques appliquées - UMR 7641 (CNRS, École polytechnique), route de Saclay, F- 91128 Palaiseau cedex (France) fabien. condamine @ gmail. com text Zoosystema 2012 2012-06-30 34 2 305 317 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2012n2a8 journal article 10.5252/z2012n2a8 1638-9387 5165431 Diphyrrhynchus halorageos ( Montrouzier, 1860 ) Acanthosternus halorageos Montrouzier, 1860: 290 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu . Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, Surunda beach, seashore, 8.X.2006 , leg. L. Soldati, 10 ♂♂ , 24 ♀♀ ( MNHN ), 2 ♂♂ , 2 ♀♀ (coll. LS ). — Espiritu Santo Isl., Big Bay, Matantas, Vatthe Area Conservation, 12-17.X.2006 , leg. L. Soldati, 2 ♂♂ , 3 ♀♀ ( MNHN ). DISTRIBUTION. — New Caledonia , Loyalty Islands , île des Pins, Vanuatu and Australia ( Kaszab 1982b ). REMARKS As its specific epithet suggests, this little nocturnal darkling beetle lives in the coastal sand and hides during the day at the base of Haloragis prostrata J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.