Neatus ventralis ( Marseul, 1876 )

Soldati, Fabien, Leo, Piero, Jansson, Nicklas, Avci, Mustafa, Coşkun, Mustafa & Kayiş, Tamer, 2025, A new species of the genus Neatus J. L. Leconte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrionini) from Türkiye, with new country records and a key to holarctic species, Zootaxa 5659 (2), pp. 179-190 : 187

Neatus ventralis ( Marseul, 1876)

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Type locality: “Japon”, described from Japan ( Marseul 1876).

Studied material. Japan.— Honshū , Aomori pref., Hirosaki, 1897, R. P. Faurie, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MNHN) . Honshū, Miyagi pref., Amazuka , 1895, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( MNHN) . Honshū, Tochigi pref., Ichikaimachi , 5-IX-1982, T. Niisato, 3 ♀♀ ( PL) . Honshū, Tochigi pref., Ichikai, Ishioroshi , 5-IX-1982, T. Niisato, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( FS) . Kyushu , Nagasaki pref., Nagasaki, 1898, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀ ( MNHN) .

Geographical distribution: Far East Asia; China, North Korea, Eastern Siberia, Russian Far East and Japan ( Iwan et al. 2020). In spite to be distinct by its body shape, sculpture of the pronotum disc, aciculate elytral punctation and even more its aedeagus, this species is considered erroneously as a synonym of N. picipes by Akita & Masumoto (2017).

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Habitus (♂). 1: Neatus noctivagus (15.5 mm). 2: N. picipes (14 mm). 3: N. subaequalis (15 mm). 4: N. tenebrioides (11.5 mm). 5: N. turcicus (15.5 mm). 6: N. ventralis (15 mm). Habitus lengths are given in brackets.