Aphodius (Paraphodius) rugosostriatus Waterhouse, 1985

Berlov, E. Ya. & Shabalin, S. A., 2007, New Records Of Scarab Beetles Of The Genus Aphodius Illiger, 1798 (Coleoptera, Scara- Baeidae) In The Russian Far East, Far Eastern Entomologist 173, pp. 15-16 : 15

Aphodius (Paraphodius) rugosostriatus Waterhouse, 1985

MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii krai: Knoring, forest, 17.VII 1981, 1 specimen (Kosheleva); 16-19.VII 1968, 1 specimen (Kascheev M.A.); Khabarovskii krai: Poletnoe, on pastureland, 9.VII 1968, 2 specimens (Radomskaya) .

DISTRIBUTION. Russian Far East: Primorskii krai, Khabarovskii krai (first record). – China (North, Central, and South) [ 3], Korea [ 5], Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Sado, Shikoku, Kyushu) [ 4].

NOTES. As shown by Z. Stebnicka and E. Galante [ 6] Aphodius raddei Berlov, 1989 descibed from Russia (Primorskii krai, Evseevka) [2] is a pure synonym of A. rugosostriatus Waterhouse, 1985 .