Platyola oligotinula ( Sharp, 1888 )

Hashizume, Takuto, Yamamoto, Shûhei & Maruyama, Munetoshi, 2023, Revision of the Genera Pseudatheta Cameron and Phymatura Sahlberg (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Japan, Zootaxa 5319 (1), pp. 27-47 : 41

Platyola oligotinula ( Sharp, 1888) , comb. rev.

[Japanese name: Hime-tobimushi-hanekakushi]

Homalota oligotinula: Sharp, 1888: 293 (original description; type locality: “ Kumamoto ” [Kumamto-shi, Kumamoto-ken , Kyushu]).

Atheta (Microdota) oligotinula: Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 634 (catalogue).

Platyola oligotinula: Pace, 1984: 54

(transferred to the genus Platyola from the genus Phymatura ).

Pseudatheta oligotinula ; Pace, 1992: 242

(transferred to the genus Pseudatheta from the genus Phymatura ; probably based on Sawada (1977)); Schülke & Smetana, 2015: 634 (catalogue).

nec. Phymatura oligotinula sensu Sawada, 1977: 217

(transferred to the genus Phymatura from the genus Homalota ).

Material examined. Type material. Lectotype:here designated, female, “ Homalota / oligotinula / Type D.S. / Kumamoto / 26.IV.81. Lewis [paper card, handwritten] // SYN- / TYPE [blue round label pinned by a curator] // Type [red round label pinned by a curator] // Japan. / G. Lewis. // Kumamoto / 23.IV.-26.IV.81. // Sharp Coll. / 1905-313 // Platyola / oligotinula (SH.) // det. R. Pace, 1982” (spermatheca is mounted in glycerin by previous researcher) ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species was redescribed based on misidentified specimens of Ps. crenulicauda by Sawada (1977) and transferred to the genus Phymatura . However, as Pace (1984) stated that this species belongs to the genus Platyola of the tribe Athetini , not Homalotini . Later, Pace (1992) probably forgot this arrangement ( Pace, 1984) and moved this species from the genus Phymatura to the genus Pseudatheta , and this treatment was followed in the later catalogs (e.g., Schülke & Smetana 2015; Newton 2022). We here place this species again in the genus Platyola .