Tibiodrepanus sinicus ( Harold, 1868 )

Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, Insecta Mundi 2015 (409), pp. 1-36 : 13

Tibiodrepanus sinicus ( Harold, 1868)

Material examined. PAKISTAN: Islamabad Capital Territory, Islamabad, Margalla Hills , 1000 m, 23.iv.2011, S. Ziani leg. (9 spec. in SZCM) ; Islamabad Capital Territory, Islamabad, Margalla Hills, Shah Marad , 1100 m, 29.iv.2011, S. Ziani leg. (3 spec. in TBCP) .

Distribution. Oriental species previously known from India, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam ( Krikken 2009), Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore ( Barbero et al. 2011). In the Palaearctic, the species has been recorded from North India [Uttarakhand ( Arrow 1931), Uttar Pradesh ( Mittal 1999) and Himachal Pradesh ( Barbero et al. 2011)], Nepal and Bhutan ( Barbero et al. 2011) and China [ Hong Kong ( Boheman 1858), Fujian ( Balthasar 1942), Yunnan ( Kryzhanovskij and Medvedev 1966), Hainan ( Majzlan and Rychlík 1991), Guangdong, Hubei and Guangxi ( Barbero et al. 2011)]. First record from Pakistan.

Remarks. The species was described by Boheman (1858) as Drepanocerus setosus , a primary homonym of Drepanocerus setosus Wiedemann, 1823 , and replaced by Harold (1868) with D. sinicus . For it and four other species, Krikken (2009) erected the genus Tibiodrepanus .

Responsible author: S. Ziani