Oreoderus bidentatus Ricchiardi, 2001

Li, Sha, Ricchiardi, Enrico, Bai, Ming & Yang, Xingke, 2016, A taxonomy review of Oreoderus Burmeister, 1842 from China with a geometric morphometric evaluation (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Valgini), ZooKeys 552, pp. 67-89 : 81

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Scarabaeidae

Oreoderus bidentatus Ricchiardi, 2001

Oreoderus bidentatus Ricchiardi, 2001: 526.

Type material examined.

Holotype, ♂, India, Meghalaya, Kashia Hills. Paratype, 1♀, Yunnan, Bao Shan, 1700 m, 1993.V.1-3, (NHML).

Additional material examined.

1♀, Yunnan, Mt. Gaoligong, (PCRD).

Distribution.

China: Yunnan; North East India.

Remarks.

Oreoderus bidentatus was described from three males from Assam (2 paratypes) and Meghalaya (holotype) and one female from Yunnan ( Ricchiardi 2001). One of the authors ( Ricchiardi 2001) decided to determine the female specimen from Yunnan as belonging to this species because its two-teethed protibia and other characters similar to the males of Oreoderus bidentatus (shape of pronotum and carinae; anterior margin of clypeus, etc.). The second female specimen from the same Chinese Province was identical to the paratype. We hope that the finding of a male specimen from Yunnan will definitively confirm the distribution of this species. The absence of findings of Oreoderus bidentatus in Myanmar is probably only due to the lack of research in that country.