Platylomalus mendicus (Lewis, 1892)

Zhang, Ye-Jun & Zhou, Hong-Zhang, 2007, Taxonomy of the tribe Paromalini Reitter (Coleoptera: Histeridae, Dendrophilinae) from China, Zootaxa 1544, pp. 1-40 : 17-18

Platylomalus mendicus (Lewis, 1892)

Lewis, 1892a: 33 (Type locality: Japan; orig. comb.: Paromalus mendicus ); Lewis, 1899: 21 (Java); 1915: 56 (Arisan); Cooman, 1937: 138 (Shanghai, Indochina); 1948: 138 ( Platylomalus ); Kryzhanovskij & Reichardt, 1976: 275; Mazur, 1984: 135 (catalogue); 1997: 183 (catalogue); Ôhara, 1994: 177 (redescription, figures, photos); 1999: 116; Löbl & Smetana, 2004: 75 (catalogue).

Material examined. VIETNAM: 4 males, 4 females, Tonkin, Hoa-Binh, 1935, de Cooman coll.; 1 male, Tonkin, Hoa-Binh, 1936, de Cooman coll.; China: Taiwan: 4 males, Kuraru (= Kueitsuchi, Pingtung Hsien), 1933. V.6, Y. Miwa coll.; 3 females, Kuraru, 1933. V.7, Y. Miwa coll.; 4 males, 1 female, Kuraru, 1933. V.8, Y. Miwa coll.; 1 male, 1 female, Taihoku (= Taipei) (Y. Miwa det.); 3 males, 2 females, 2 exs., Kotosho (Taitung Hsien), 1922. III.11; 3 exs., Taihoku, 1940. IV.21, S. Miyamoto coll.; Shanghai: 4 exs., 1925. VI.16, O. Piel. coll.; 2 exs., Zi-Ka-Wei, 1925. VI.16; 4 exs., Zi-Ka-Wei, 1929. IV. 10; Liaoning: 1 female, Gaolingzi, 1939. VII.2; Heilongjiang: 1 female, Harbin, 1947. VII.16; 4 males, 3 females, Harbin, 1950. V.14; 1 female, Harbin, 1953. VII.5; Yunnan: 2 exs., Funing County, Bo’ai, 260 m, net screen, 1998. IV.17, Haisheng Zhou coll.; Tianjin: 2 exs., bark, 1986.VII, Shengfang Zhang coll.; Beijing: 1 ex., Haidian, Beijing forest college, 1951. VI.1, Yuqi Tian coll.

Distribution. China (Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Yunnan, Taiwan); Russia (Far East, Primorskiy Kray), Japan, Vietnam, India, Indonesia.