Promethis Pascoe, 1869

Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, Zoosystema 34 (2), pp. 305-317 : 313

Genus Promethis Pascoe, 1869 Promethis sulcigera (Boisduval, 1835)

Upis sulcigera Boisduval, 1835: 256 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville,CETRAV in Saraoutou (15°26’47”S, 167°12’32”E), 1- 11.X and 18-20.X.2006, at night with a headlamp, on the decaying trunk of an old mango tree ( Mangifera indica ), leg. L. Soldati, 2 ♀♀ ( MNHN), 2 ♀♀ (coll. LS).

DISTRIBUTION. — Described from “île d’Amboine” ( Ambon, Indonesia), this widespread species is also known from Taiwan, Philippines, Moluccan Islands, New Guinea and the surrounding islands and Australia (Queensland) ( Kaszab 1988a). It is also present in the Solomon Islands, the Samoa Islands, Palau and the Vanuatu Archipelago (Aoba, Malo, Malekula [Mallicolo] and Epi, Erronango islands) ( Kaszab 1988b).