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. Synonymy:
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF9154DB75863923FDB1" box="[151,359,492,516]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">Melalgus japonicum</emphasis>
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[sic]
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF9154DB7658395EFDFE" bold="true" box="[151,282,562,588]" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">Taxonomy.</emphasis>
The male
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has been examined by LYL, and we have examined further specimens of both sexes from
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(
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, Zhejiang).
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[
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] Chûjô was described from a single male in a very brief paper in Japanese (
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). He compared the species with
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, noting differences in the head, mentum and elytra without specifying what the differences were. The paper was overlooked by
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, as noted by
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, and the species omitted from the treatment of the genus by
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. The
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was redescribed and illustrated by
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, together with further specimens of both sexes from
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. It is evident from
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excellent description, photographs, and illustrations of the male genitalia, that the species falls within the range of intraspecific variation of
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, a species which is rather variable in size and details of morphology.Accordingly, we here synonymise
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with
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF915525771D39A6FC22" box="[361,482,886,912]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">M. batillus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF91548B77F0391DFC06" bold="true" box="[199,345,922,948]" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">New record.</emphasis>
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BBQ
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, FIT Vane, MTH[amer]/MR[Liang], FTB2V13 (
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.
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF91548B778B3925FC49" bold="true" box="[199,353,993,1019]" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(
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(
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,
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.
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF91548B706F3963FBAD" bold="true" box="[199,295,1029,1055]" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">Biology.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFE03EF26E30FF91557D706C3A0EFB92" author="Beeson, C. F. C. &amp; Bhatia, B. M." box="[305,586,1030,1056]" pageId="7" pageNumber="278" pagination="223 - 323" refId="ref6032" refString="Beeson, C. F. C. &amp; Bhatia, B. M. (1937) On the biology of the Bostrychidae (Coleopt.). Indian Forest Records, New Series Entomology, 2, 223 - 323." type="journal article" year="1937">Beeson &amp; Bhatia (1937)</bibRefCitation>
obtained adults in March from the cut branch wood of
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<emphasis id="B9059F116E30FF915099706D3DD8FB92" box="[1237,1436,1030,1056]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="278">Vatica lanceifolia</emphasis>
(Roxburgh) Blume
</taxonomicName>
(
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).
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