Blepephaeus taomeiae (Hayashi, Nara & Yu, 1995) comb. nov. KṞṱƛ+ (Figure 6)

Uraechoides taomeiae Hayashi et al., 1995: 149 (type locality: “Luen Din, Chiai, Taiwan, China ”); Chou 2008: 297, figs (male and female); Löbl & Smetana 2010: 288 (catalogue); Lin & Yang 2019: 324 (catalogue).

As stated above, Uraechoides Breuning, 1981 is treated as a junior synonym of Paracyriothasastes Breuning, 1978, therefore, Uraechoides taomeiae Hayashi, Nara & Yu, 1995 should be treated in Paracyriothasastes .

Paracyriothasastes can be distinguished from Blepephaeopsis by having the prothorax with lateral tubercles near the base (prothorax with lateral tubercles near the middle in Blepephaeopsis), elytron with an acute marginal angle at the apex (elytron with a weak marginal angle at the apex in Blepephaeopsis).

Paracyriothasastes taomeiae (Hayashi, Nara & Yu, 1995) has characters of Blepephaeus, besides, examining the holotype photographs of U. taomeiae (Fig. 6), Blepephaeus fulvus (Pic, 1933) (Fig. 7) and B. nigrostigma Wang & Chiang, 1998 (Fig. 8), we found that U. taomeiae is extremely similar to Blepephaeus fulvus and B. nigrostigma in following characters: elytra densely covered with brown hairs forming four large maculae (an inverted triangular macula basally, a pair of arcuate maculae laterally and a sub-triangular macula apically), with a large X-shaped grayish white haired band among above four maculae, sparsely with sub-rounded small black haired maculae on above four maculae, prothorax with lateral tubercles near middle, marginal angles weak. We thus transfer U. taomeiae to the genus Blepephaeus Pascoe, 1866 .

Type material examined. Holotype (MSME), Luen Din, Chiai, Taiwan, China, 13 May 1991, Taomei Li leg. Male. Examined from a modified photograph (Fig. 6) from original paper of Hayashi et al. (1995).

Distribution. China (Taiwan).