Check List 14(4): 681-692, doi: 10.15560/14.4.681
Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Tanegashima Island (Ryukyu Islands, Japan)
Kôichi Arimoto‡, Reo Itô§‡ JT Biohistory Research Hall, Takatsuki, Japan§ Oita, Japan
Corresponding author: Kôichi Arimoto ( kou.arimoto@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Juan Pablo Botero Rodriguez © 2018 Kôichi Arimoto, Reo Itô. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Arimoto K, Itô R (2018) Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Tanegashima Island (Ryukyu Islands, Japan). Check List 14(4): 681-692. https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.681 |  |
Abstract
There are few records of beetles of the family Elateridae from Tanegashima Island, in the Ôsumi Islands, in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, and the elaterid fauna of this island has not been reviewed. We examined newly collected specimens and reviewed the previous records from the island. In field work and from a colleague’s collection, we found 27 species, of which 13 were recorded for the first time on the island. As result 43 species are confirmed from this island and a checklist of all elaterid species from Tanegashima Island is provided.
Keywords
Elaterid beetles, new distributional records, lowland, geographical boundary, Palearctic region