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Issue: Vol. 79 No. 1: 4 Feb. 2026
Type: Article
Published: 2026-02-04
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2026.79.1.3
Page range: 28-33
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Yakushima Island, southern Japan: New species Lathrobium from Japan

Entomological Laboratory, Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, JP-819-0395, Japan
Laboratory of Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0034, Japan
Laboratory of Entomology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, 1737 Funako, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0034, Japan
beetle brachypterous Coleoptera distribution East Asia endemic Island Japan Kyushu Lathrobiini Lathrobium male genitalia new species Paederinae Palearctic region species group Staphylinidae

Abstract

Lathrobium yakushimanum Sato, Hirai & Horiuchi sp. nov. of the L. brachypterum species group is described from Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. This new species is easily distinguishable from other members of the L. brachypterum group with the internal sac of aedeagus with single sclerotized and slender part. For the Japanese species of the genus Lathrobium Gravenhorst, 1802, it is the first record from Yakushima Island and corresponds to the southernmost part of the distribution.

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