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Cholevine Beetles (Coleoptera : Leiodidae) Occurring on Toku-no-shima Island, the Ryukyus, Southwest Japan

@article{Hayashi2010CholevineB,
  title={Cholevine Beetles (Coleoptera : Leiodidae) Occurring on Toku-no-shima Island, the Ryukyus, Southwest Japan},
  author={Y. Hayashi and M. Nishikawa},
  journal={The entomological review of Japan},
  year={2010},
  volume={65},
  pages={189-190}
}

Y. Hayashi, M. Nishikawa

Published 2010

Geography

The entomological review of Japan

Toku-no-shima Island(ca. 247.8km2) isthenearest largeisland toAmami-0shimaIsland, the northernpartof theRyukyu Islands. It has thereforebeenexpected that the cholevine fauna of this island issimilar to thatof theAmamis (cf. HAYAsHl, 1969). However, Ptomaphaginus shibatai Y. HAYAsHI hasonly beenknown from the islanduntil now (HosHINA& SUGAYA, 2003). We recently examined many cholevinespecimens from the islandand considered that there is thefaunal similarity between the two islandsasexpected… CONTINUE READING

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