Orcus nepalicus Canepari, 2012

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1. Orcus nepalicus Canepari, 2012

Distribution: Nepal.

Notes. According to Tomaszewska & Łączyński (2010), Orcus s. st. is absent in the Asian mainland and they synonymized four species described by Gorham (1895) under Orcus with Sticholotis Crotch, 1874 . However, Li et al. (2020b) mentioned that Orcus is distributed in the Oriental region and Australia. Canepari (2012) described Orcus nepalicus Canepari (2012: 363) from Nepal as the “most western species of the genus Orcus ”. It is most likely to be a synonym of Chilocorus (= Simmondsius ) pakistanensis distributed in Pakistan and north-western India (see notes under C. pakistanensis ).