A contribution to the genus Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae)

Abstract

The diagnostic characters of the genera Didrepanephorus Wood-Mason, 1878 and Fruhstorferia Kolbe, 1894 are clarified. The following nomenclatorial acts are proposed: Didrepanephorus birmanicus (Arrow, 1907), comb. nov., Didrepanephorus fukinukii (Muramoto & Araya, 2000), comb. nov., Fruhstorferia baron (Prokofiev, 2013), comb. nov., and Fruhstorferia anthracina Ohaus, 1903, comb. rev. Didrepanephorus tangzhaoyangi Zhao & Liu, sp. nov. is described from Yunnan Province, China. A lectotype is designated for Fruhstorferia birmanica Arrow, 1907. Didrepanephorus mizunumai Nagai & Hirasawa, 1991 is reported from Myanmar for the first time.