An essay on the tribe Xylographellini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Ciidae)
Author
Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano
text
Zootaxa
2008
2008-07-30
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Syncosmetus japonicus
Sharp, 1891
(
Figs 11
,
136–138
,
142A, 143A, 144–145
)
Omogocis tuberculifrons
Miyatake, 1954
(synonymised by
Miyatake 1970
)
Diagnosis and comments
The species differs from
Syn. reticulatus
by the more convex and oval body (
Figs 136–138
), with more marked keels and larger punctation on elytra. The male genitalia (
Fig. 144
) is well sclerotized, with a cylindrical median lobe that is longer than the tegmen and as long as the ninth segment. The basal piece is distinct, with almost half the length of tegmen, the anterior margin broadly rounded and the posterior margin truncate. Specimens examined
Japan
.
Three
specimens (
LAPC
) labeled /JAPAN,
Shikoku Ishizuchi Mt.
N.P. M. Tsutsujo
,
1600m
14.VIII.80,
S. Peck
/ Betula-Fagus logs, stump & moss litter
/;
one specimen
/JAPAN,
Shikoku Ishizuchi Mt.
N.P.
Omogo Valley
18-25.VIII.1980
S. Peck
,
700m
/ fungi on logs & moss, mixed warm temp for/. All specimens with an identification label /
Syncosmetus japonicus
Sharp, 1891
C. Lopes-Andrade
det. 2007
/.
Host-fungi
Pleurotus
sp. (Pleurotaceae)
(
Kawanabe 1995
, doubtful report),
Trametes versicolor
(L.) Lloyd (
Polyporaceae
) (cited as
Coriolus versicolor
in Kawanabe 1996, as a doubtful report);
Fomes fomentarius
(L.) J.J. Kickx (
Polyporaceae
),
Pyrrhoderma sendaiense
(Yasuda) Imazeki (Hymenochaetaceae)
and
Elfvingia applanata
(Pers.) P. Karst. (Ganodermataceae)
(
Kawanabe 1998
);
Inonotus mikadoi
(Lloyd) Gilb. & Ryvarden (Hymenochaetaceae)
(
Kawanabe 1999
).
Distribution Known from
Japan
(
Fig. 145
).