Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS, 1883.

 


Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus LEWIS, 1883.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS, 1883:340-341 [Japan].

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Felsche, 1898:86.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Van Roon, 1905:176.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Van Roon, 1910:57.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Didier, 1928:32.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Kamiya, 1930:277-279, pl.11, figs. 1-7.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Miwa, 1934:322.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Didier & Séguy, 1953:190.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Nakane, 1955:87.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Benesh, 1960:21.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Nomura, 1960:44.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Kurosawa, 1970:294.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Howden & Lawrence, 1974:1506.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Krikken, 1975:50.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Inahara & Ratti, 1981:189-191, figs. 2a-c.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Kikuta, 1984:1, 4-5.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Fujita & Ichikawa, 1985:4, 11.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Kurosawa, 1985:49.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Shiraishi, 1987.

Aesalus asiaticus subsp. asiaticus LEWIS; Isida & Fujioka, 1988:1-2.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, 1989:7.

Aesalus asiaticus asiaticus LEWIS; Bartolozzi, 1991:3, 6.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, Obuchi & Ochi, 1991:21.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Abe, Kudoh, Ichikawa & Saitoh, 1992:220.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya & Obuchi, 1992:33-34.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya & Obuchi, 1992:39-46.

Aesalus asiatics LEWIS; Araya, Obuchi & Ochi, 1992:30.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus LEWIS; Maes, 1992:5.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, 1993:27-33.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, Kon & Johki, 1993:93-94, 101, 103.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus LEWIS; Mizunuma & Nagai, 1994:203, pl.1, fig. 9(1-3).

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, Tanaka & Tanikado, 1995:209, 216-217.

Aesalus asiaticus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, 1996:20.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, Kon & Bartolozzi, 1997:125-132.

Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS; Holloway, 1998:fig. 37.

Aesalus asiaticus asiaticus LEWIS; Araya, 2001:272.

Japan*.

Hokkaido I. : Sapporo Pref. : Jin-ja-Yama, 14-XI-39 (1 male in National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Honshu I. : Niigata Pref. : Sadogashima I.

Honshu I. : Fukushima Pref. : Yuigahara, IV-72, col. S. Mizunoya (1 female in Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino).

Honshu I. : Fukushima Pref. : Yuigahara, col. O. Tamura (1 female in coll. Krake, Australia).

Honshu I. : Tochigi Pref. : Nikko [36°45N-139°36] : Shôbuhama, 25-VII-41 (1 male in National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Honshu I. : Tochigi Pref. : Nikko [36°45N-139°36] : Jumoto (1 female in Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino).

Honshu I. : Tokyo Met. : Okutama, 35°49N-139°07E, 17-V-55, col. Y. Kurosawa (1 female in National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Honshu I. : Izu Is. : Toshima I., 34°31N-139°17E

Honshu I. : Izu Is. : Mikurajima I., 33°53N-139°37E

Honshu I. : Yamanashi Pref. : Koganesawa, 30-V-80 (1 ex. National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Honshu I. : Yamanashi Pref. : Shikishima : Mt. Kannondake, 25-II-96 (1 ex. in coll. Kiyotami Fukinuki, Japan).

Honshu I. : Kanagawa Pref. : Hakone, 35°11 N – 139°02 E : Oaku-dani, 9-X-82, col. T. Obuchi (1 male in coll. Obuchi, Japan).

Honshu I. : Kanagawa Pref. : Hakone, 35°11 N – 139°02 E, 26-XI-72 (1 female in coll. Bartolozzi, Italia).

Honshu I. : Kanagawa Pref. : Hakone, 35°11 N – 139°02 E, 30-I-84 (3 males in coll. Bartolozzi, Italia).

Honshu I. : Aichi Pref. : Inabu-chô, 1000-1100 m, winter-88 (citated by Araya, 1993).

Honshu I. : Shizuoka Pref. : Amagi-san Mt., 34°51N-139°01E, 30-XII-81 (1 male citated by Mizunuma & Nagai 1994).

Honshu I. : Shizuoka Pref. : Chiuzenji* ? = Shuzenji, 34°58N-138°56E.

Honshu I. : Fukui Pref. (citated by Araya, 2001).

Honshu I. : Nara Pref. : Hase, 25-V-58, col. T. Shibata (1 male, 1 female in Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino).

Honshu I. : Nara Pref. : Mt. Syakadagate, 1600 m, 18-X-87, col. N. Okuda (1 female in New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research New Zealand Limited, Auckland).

Honshu I. : Nara Pref. : Yamamoto : Hase, 15-VII-58, col. T. Shibata (1 male in National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Shikoku I. : Ehime Pref. : Mt. Narahara-yama, 4-III-76, col. T. Obuchi (1 male in coll. Obuchi, Japan).

Shikoku I. : Ehime Pref. : Mt. Narahara-yama, III-78 (1 female in coll. Bartolozzi, Italy).

Shikoku I. : Ehime Pref. : Mt. Saragamine, 21-X-84 (1 male, 1 female citated by Mizunuma & Nagai 1994).

Shikoku I. : Ehime Pref. : Mt. Narabauk, 12-IV-70, col. S. Nagni (1 ex. in Musée canadien de la nature, Ottawa).

Shikoku I. : Ehime Pref. : Imabari, 34°04N-133°00E, on seashore (citated by Shiraishi 1987).

Kyushu I. : Ohita Pref. : Kuju-san Mt., 33°05N-131°15E, 25-XI-73, col. H. Irie (1 male in National Science Museum, Tokyo).

Kyushu I. : Nagasaki Pref. : Tsushima I., 34°25N-129°20E.

Kyushu I. : Kumamoto Pref. : Kumamoto [32°47N-130°43E] : Oyayama*.

Kyushu I. : Amakusa-shimo-jima, 32°23N-130°07E

Japan, col. Lewis (1 female SYNTYPUS of Aesalus asiaticus LEWIS 1883 in Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino).

Japan, 21-III-88, leg. Mizukami (1 ex. in coll. Alberto Ballerio, Brescia, Italia).

Biology.

Associated with brown rot of wood.

Saproxylophagous : Fagaceae : Fagus.

Bibliography :

ARAYA K. (2001) New records of Ceruchus lignarius monticola Nakane, 1978 (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan, with reference to Lucanid fauna of Fukui Prefecture. Sukunahikona, Special Publication of the Japan Coleopterological Society, 1:271-273.

MIZUNUMA T. & NAGAI S. (1994) The Lucanid Beetles of the World. Mushi-Sha's Iconographic Series of Insects, Ed. H. Fujita, Japan. Vol. I : 337 pp., 156 pls.

 


Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA, 1985.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA, 1985 [Shiratani].

Aesalus asiaticus subsp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Isida & Fujioka, 1988:1-2.

Aesalus asiaticus sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Bartolozzi, 1991:3, 6.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Maes, 1992:5.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Araya, Kon & Johki, 1993:95.

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Mizunuma & Nagai, 1994:203, pl.1, fig. 9(4-5).

Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Araya, Tanaka & Tanikado, 1995: 216-217.

Aesalus asiaticus sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA; Araya, 1996:20.

Japan.

Kagoshima Pref. : Yakushima I., 30°21N-130°32E : Shiratani (TYPUS of Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA 1985).

Kagoshima Pref. : Yakushima I., 30°21N-130°32E : Shiratani, 15-IV-84 (1 male PARATYPUS of Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii FUJITA & ICHIKAWA 1985 citated by Mizunuma & Nagai 1994).

Kagoshima Pref. : Yakushima I., 30°21N-130°32E : Shiratani, 23-III-86 (1 female citated by Mizunuma & Nagai 1994).

Kagoshima Pref. : Yakushima I., 30°21N-130°32E : Oko, collected as larvae on 8-V-92, emerged on VIII-92, col. K. Araya (1 male, 1 female in Kyoto University).

Kagoshima Pref. : Yakushima I., 30°21N-130°32E : Oko, collected as larvae on 9-V-92, emerged on VIII-92, col. K. Araya (1 male, 1 female in coll. Araya, Japan).

Distribution of Aesalus asiaticus :

square : Aesalus asiaticus ssp. asiaticus

circle : Aesalus asiaticus ssp. sawaii

 

 

 


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