Sambus quadricolor quadricolor Saunders, 1873

Tamadera, Yutaka & Yoshitake, Hiraku, 2020, Jewel beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) collected during the 2018 field survey on Iejima Island, the Okinawa Islands, Ryukyus, south-western Japan, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 48785-48785 : 48785

Sambus quadricolor quadricolor Saunders, 1873

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yutaka Tamadera; individualCount: 43; sex: 25 males, 18 females; lifeStage: adult; Location: islandGroup: Ryukyus; island: Iejima Island; country: Japan; stateProvince: Okinawa; locality: Mt. Gusuku-yama, Higashie-ue, Ie-son ; Identification: identifiedBy: Yutaka Tamadera; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2018; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Hiraku Yoshitake; individualCount: 24; sex: 9 males, 15 females; lifeStage: adult; Location: islandGroup: Ryukyus; island: Iejima Island; country: Japan; stateProvince: Okinawa; locality: Mt. Gusuku-yama, Higashie-ue, Ie-son ; Identification: identifiedBy: Yutaka Tamadera; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: eventDate: 06/08/2018; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Yutaka Tamadera; individualCount: 7; sex: 4 males, 3 females; lifeStage: adult; Location: islandGroup: Ryukyus; island: Iejima Island; country: Japan; stateProvince: Okinawa; locality: Mt. Gusuku-yama, Higashie-ue, Ie-son ; Identification: identifiedBy: Yutaka Tamadera; dateIdentified: 2018; Event: eventDate: 06/09/2018; Record Level: basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Japan: Honshu (Kanagawa Pref. and Shizuoka Pref.), Kyushu, Sarushima Is. (in Yokosuka-shi), the Ôsumi Isls. (Yakushima Is.), Amami Isls. ( Amami-Ôshima Is.) and Okinawa Isls. (Okinawajima Is. and Hamahigajima Is.; Iejima Is. - new record) ( Ohmomo and Fukutomi 2013, Kusui and Miyagi 2017).

Notes

New to Iejima Is., these specimens were collected by visual searching, net-sweeping and beating Ficus pumila which grows on an artificial wall (Figs 3 c, 4 e, 5 c).