A revision of Palaearctic Lobrathium. IV. Three new species from Nepal and China, a new combination, and additional records (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae)
Author
Assing, V.
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Linzer biologische Beiträge
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2013-07-31
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10.5281/zenodo.5412843
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Lobrathium cylindricum
(
BERNHAUER
1938)
,
nov.comb.
Lathrobium cylindricum
BERNHAUER 1938:
37
f.
Type material examined:
Syntypes
:
1♀
: "Unzen bei Shimabara,
Japan
/
cylindricum Brnh. Cotypus
Lathrobium
/ Chicago NHMus
M.Bernhauer Collection
/
Lobrathium scabripenne (Sharp)
,
Gusarov
det. 1990" (
FMNH
)
;
1 ex.
[segments VIII-X of abdomen missing]: "Unzen bei Shimabara,
Japan
/
cylindricum Bernh.
Typus /
cylindricum Brnh.
Typus
Lathrobium
/ Chicago NHMus
M.Bernhauer Collection
/
Lobrathium scabripenne (Sharp)
,
Gusarov
det. 1990" (
FMNH
)
.
Comment: The original description is based on an unspecified number of
syntypes
, among them at least
one male
, from "
Japan
: Unzen bei Shimabara; Nordwestl.
China
: Chinkiang" (
BERNHAUER 1938
). Two female
syntypes
, which had been studied by V.I. Gusarov approximately 20 years ago, were located in the Bernhauer collection at the FMNH. Whether or not the type specimens from
Japan
and
China
are conspecific can be clarified only when the material from
China
is available for study. At present the whereabouts of this material, which may include the male seen by Bernhauer, is unknown. The two examined specimens from
Japan
clearly belong to
Lobrathium
, not to
Lathrobium
GRAVENHORST 1802
. The supramarginal line of the elytra is distinct. According to Vladimir Gusarov´s identification labels attached to the specimens,
L. cylindricum
is conspecific with, and consequently a junior synonym of
Lathrobium scabripenne
SHARP 1874
. However, before such a synonymy is proposed, the type material of
L. scabripenne
and the
syntype
material of
L. cylindricum
from
China
will have to be examined.