Lepidiota reuleauxi Brenske, 1892

Prokofiev, Artem M., 2016, On the Phytophagous Scarabs of the Subfamilies Dynastinae, Rutelinae, and Melolonthinae from the Schouten Islands (Kepulauan Biak), Indonesian Papua (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Species Diversity 21, pp. 71-77 : 73

Lepidiota reuleauxi Brenske, 1892

Lepidiota reuleauxi Brenske, 1892: 49 .

Material. 4 males, 4 females, Indonesia, Papua, Yapen I ., northern coast, Rosbori village , black light, 13– 14.11 .2012, A . M . Prokofiev leg.

Remarks. This species is widely distributed in Papua New Guinea, where it is known as a sugarcane pest ( Allsopp 1990). However, it was not hitherto known in Indonesian Papua. Lepidiota reuleauxi was common in the disturbed margins of a primary forest on Yapen I. and seems likely to be widely distributed in the whole New Guinean region. The present specimens show some variability in the outlines of the dorsal processes of the male parameres and have slightly deeper and shorter parameres in lateral view than specimens from Papua New Guinea ( Heller 1914; Allsopp 1990). The females have a somewhat longer and stronger transverse subapical crest on the pygidium and a less deep but much narrower impression below it than Allsopp (1990: fig. 3) illustrated. Most probably these differences reflect inter-population variability.