Agrypnus (Colaulon) kusuii Ôhira, 1993

Arimoto, Kôichi & Itô, Reo, 2018, Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Tanegashima Island (Ryukyu Islands, Japan), Check List 14 (4), pp. 681-692 : 685

* Agrypnus (Colaulon) kusuii Ôhira, 1993

Agrypnus (Colaulon) kusuii Ôhira 1993: 249 .

Material examined. 1♀, Site 5, spraying [18A003] ( Fig. 3C); 1♂, 1♀, Site 9, spraying [18A004, 18A005]; 1♀, Site 12, looking [18A006].

Species diagnosis. Ôhira (2004).

Remarks. This species was described from Mage Island, located 20 km west of Tanegashima Island, and has been recorded from Yakushima Island and Cape Sata, Kagoshima Prefecture ( Ôhira 2004). It is endemic to the area near the Ôsumi Islands.

Bionomics. At Site 9, this species was found in a crack in the gutter on the side of a road through cultivated land near the seaside ( Fig. 2A), together with Heteroderes changi Ôhira 1967 . At Site 12, we observed a specimen walking in the grassland at night.

Cryptalaus larvatus pini ( Lewis, 1894) Alaus pini Lewis 1894: 30 . Alaus putridus pini ; Nakane and Kishii 1955a: 15. Paracalais larvatus pini ; Ôhira 1976: 32. Cryptalaus larvatus pini ; Ôhira 1990b: 21. Alaus putridus satoi Ôhira 1964: 235 . Paracalais putridus satoi ; Ôhira 1969c: 25. Paracalais larvatus satoi ; Ôhira and Arimoto 1976: 365.

Material examined. 2♀, Site 2, SLT [18A007, 18A008] ( Fig. 3D); 1♀, Site 11, SLT [18A009].

Species diagnosis. Ôhira and Suzuki (1985).