Paramisolampidius shirozui
Creators: name: Merkl, O.
name: Masumoto, K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Paramisolampidius
Paramisolampidius shirozui

description: Paramisolampidius shirozui (M. T. CHÛJÔ, 1967)
(Figs 5, 10, 14)
Misolampidius shirozui M. T. CHÛJÔ, 1967: 379.
Paramisolampidius shirozui: NAKANE 1968: 82.
Paramisolampidius alishanus MASUMOTO, 1981 b: 79, syn. n.
Paramisolampidius wufengus MASUMOTO, 1981 b: 80, syn. n.
Specimens examined – Chiayi Hsien: Alishan, 25.VI.1981, K. MASUMOTO (holotype of P. alishanus, NSMT, 1 paratype of P. alishanus, CKM); Alishan, Shihou, 9.IV.1986, M. OHARA (6, CKM); Alishan, Shihou, 10.IV.1986, M. OHARA (1, CKM); Mt. Alishan, 5–6.VII.1965, KUROSAWA, Japan-U.S. Co-operative Sci. Program (1, NSMT); Mt. Alishan, 2200 m, 24.III.1982, T. SHIMOMURA (1, CKM); Arisan, Y. MIWA (2, TARI); Fenchihu, 26.VI.1981, K. MASUMOTO (holotype of P. wufengus, NSMT, 2 paratypes of P. wufengus, CKM); Fenchihu, 24.VI.1982, K. MASUMOTO (3, CKM); Funchifo [= Fenchihu], 26.III.1970, T. KOBAYASHI (1, CKA); Funchifo [= Fenchihu], 28.IV.1971, T. HAYASHI (1, CKA); Funchifo [= Fenchihu], 25.IV.1973, Y. KIYOYAMA (1, CKA). – Hualien Hsien: Pilu, 20.III.1926, T. KANO (1, NSMT); Pilu, 16.V.1928, T. KANO (1, NSMT). – Miaoli Hsien: Peikan-Shantaowench’uan, 11.IV.1967, T. SHIROZU (holotype of P. shirozui, ELKU). – Nantou Hsien: Hewanshan, 20.III.1985, LU CHINCHIH (3, CKM); Hewanshan, 6.V.1985, LU CHINCHIH (2, CKM); Hewanshan, 27.V.1991, C. C. LOH (1, CKM); KAO- LENG DYI, 18 km W of Wushe, 24°4.605’N, 121°7.583’ E, 2074 m, from tree trunks at night, 18–19.IV.2002, leg. D. ANSTINE, GY. FÁBIÁN & O. MERKL (21, HNHM); Meifeng, 9.VI.1973, H. YOKOYAMA (3, CKM); Meifeng, 11.VI.1973, H. YOKOYAMA (1, CKM); Meifeng, 22.V.1974, K. AKIYAMA (1, CKM); Meifeng, 24.V.1974, H. YOKOYAMA (1, CKM); Meifeng, 25.V.1974, H. YOKOYAMA (1, CKM); Meifeng, 14.VI.1974, H. YOKOYAMA (4, CKM); Meifeng, 14.VI.1974, K. AKIYAMA (1, CKM); Meifeng, 2.I.1975, K. MASUMOTO (4, CKM); Meifeng, 10.VIII.1975, K. MASUMOTO (2, CKM); Mt. Kuantoushan, 17.IV.1993, LU CHINCHI (2, CKM); Musha [= Wushe], V.18.-VI.15.1919, T. OKUNI (1, TARI); Nanshanchi, 800 m, 30.VI.1965, Y. KUROSAWA, Japan-U.S. Co-operative Sci. Program (1, NSMT); Nanshanchi, 800 m, 30.VI.1965, R. ISHIKAWA (1, NSMT); Nanshanshi, 2.X.1991, C. C. LOH (2, CKM); Sungkang, 11.VI.1974, H. YOKOYAMA (1, CKM); Sungkang-Tsuifeng, 2040–2300 m, 5.VIII.1984, KATSUMI AKITA (1, CKAK); Songgang, 19.VII.1991, C. C. LOH (4, CKM); Rinnei Nature Conservation Area, between Meifeng and Tsuifeng, 2100 m, from tree trunks at night, 16.XI.2002, L. RONKAY & O. MERKL (3, HNHM); Tatachia, 25.X.1997, Y. S. CHONG (1, TFRI); Tzuchung, 23°29’19” N, 120°51’13” E, 2375 m, from tree trunks at night, 23.XI.2002, L. RONKAY & O. MERKL (3, HNHM); no closer locality, VII.1963, unknown collector (1, HNHM). – Taichung Hsien: Dashueshan, 04.V.1990, SUZUKI (1, CKM); Dashueshan, 12.VI.1991, C. C. LOH (2, CKM); Lishan, 17.VI.1973, H. YOKOYAMA (1, CKM); Lishan, 15.VIII.1974, Y. KIYOYAMA (1, CKA); Lishan Forest, 30.IV.1975, W. OUCHI (1, CKM); Xiaoxueshan, 21.X.1961, Y. Z. ZHANG (1, TFRI). – Taipei Hsien: Wulai, 25.V.1971, K. SAKAI (1, CKM). – Taoyuan Hsien: Lalashan, 16.VI.1983, K. MASUMOTO (2, CKM). – No closer locality: Formosa, 1969–1971 (4, CKA); Formosa, 1969 (2, CKA); Formosa (1, CKA); Taiwan (8, CKM). – Unknown locality: Keinanzan, 18.V.1935, Y. MIWA (1, TARI). Habitus: Fig. 5; head: Fig. 10; aedeagus: Fig. 14.
Remarks – The holotype of P. shirozui was described from the locality in Miaoli county as written in the Specimens examined. However, the specimen bears the locality label written in Japanese (with Latin letters) as follows: “(TAIWAN) / Hokuko- / Kaminoshima-onsen / Byoritsu-ken / 11.iv.1967 / T. SHIROZU“.
P. alishanus was described from Alishan on the basis of three specimens. MASUMOTO (1981 a) distinguished it from P. shirozui by “larger, more elongated body, distinct comma-shaped impressions on the pronotum, clearly convex transversely wrinkled, reticulate and microscopically setaceous elytral intervals, and elongate aedeagus”. P. wufengus was described in the same paper on the basis of three specimens from Fenchihu (15 km west of Alishan in the same mountain range), and was separated from P. shirozui by the elytra much more finely punctate-striate and with smooth or feebly reticulate intervals.
The senior author collected 21 specimens in a rather small area of forest in Kao-Leng Dyi, which belong to the same species. They exhibit considerable variability in pronotal punctures (sparser or denser), impressions of pronotum (deep, shallow or absent), depth of elytral striae (shallow or deeper), wrinkles of elytral intervals (present or absent), but these are a matter of degree, and the characters occur in all combination. The same is true for the materials from Alishan, Meifeng, Fenchihu etc. This kind of variability is not unusual in various groups of flightless Tenebrionidae, and supports that both P. alishanus and P. wufengus should be synonyms of P. shirozui.
This species is apparently not uncommon in the mountains of Chiayi and Nantou counties of Central Taiwan, and some specimens come from the adjacent counties as well. The northernmost locality is Wulai in Taipei county, about 30 km south of Taipei, while the mountains around Alishan and Fenchihu constitute the southernmost part of the area known to date. Altitudinal separation from P. csorbai see under that species.
description: Published as part of Merkl, O. & Masumoto, K., 2008, A Review Of Taiwanese Paramisolampidius (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Cnodalonini), pp. 1-11 in Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 54 (1) on pages 6-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5731866