Clambidae

A single species of Acalyptomerus is known from Taiwan: A. lawrencei Liu, Yu & Li, 2025 (non-endemic). In our project, we sampled this species only in Mt. Shoushan and Mt. Banpingshan directly in Kaohsiung City. Despite we have samples Mt. Banpingshan frequently since 2021, the first specimens of this species were found there only in 2024, since then the species is regularly found and locally can be common. The species was described from a city park in Guangzhou City in southern China in 2025^[5] - the species may hence be more widespread in urban areas, and we cannot exclude that it was introduced to Taiwan only recently.

References

^[1] Crowson R.A. (1979): Observations on Clambidae (Coleoptera), with descriptions of a new genus and species and of several larvae. Revue suisse de Zoologie 86(3): 611–623.

^[2] Endrödy-Younga S. (1959): Systematischer Überblick über die Familie Clambidae. Opuscula Entomologica 24: 81–116.

^[3] Endrödy-Younga S. (1986): New species and new records for the Palaearctic and Oriental faunas of the family Clambidae (Coleoptera, Eucinetoidea). Revue suisse de Zoologie 93(1): 89–115. DOI

^[4] Endrödy-Younga S. (1998): Acalyptomerus Crowson: the circumtropical genus of the family Clambidae (Coleoptera: Clambidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau 68: 199–203.

^[5] Liu Z., Yu Y. & Li Z. (2025): Contributions to the Chinese Clambidae and Eucinetidae (Coleoptera: Clamboidea), with description of a new species Acalyptomerus lawrencei (Clambidae) from Guangdong. Annales Zoologici 75(1): 53–60. DOI