Bolbelasmus orientalis Petrovitz, 1968

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Bolbelasmus orientalis Petrovitz, 1968

Bolbelasmus orientalis Petrovitz, 1968: 185. Original combination (type locality: Wladiwostok [Vladivostok], Primorskii Territory, Russia); Krikken 1977: 289 (notes; diagnosis; illustration); Nikolajev, Král and Bezdӗk 2016: 33 (catalog).

Distribution.

Described from Vladivostok, Russian Far East.

Remarks.

Bolbelasmus orientalis was described from one male and one female. Krikken (1977) examined both type specimens and found that the female allotype to be a minor male. Also, he noted that the species has no direct affinity with three congeners, B. coreanus , B. meridionalis and B. nativus , which are geographically close to B. orientalis but are allied to the western Palaearctic B. unicornis . Bezborodov and Koshkin (2014) doubted the locality label attached to the type specimens because there were no additional records of the species documented in Russia or nearby territories other than that of type specimens. We, therefore, exclude B. orientalis from the Bolbelasmus fauna in the eastern Palaearctic and the Oriental regions.