Epierus lucus Lewis, 1884

Epierus lucus Lewis, 1884: 136 [Japan: Kasuga no Miya, Nara]; Bickhardt, 1917: 124; Mazur, 1984: 152.

Original description. "Ovalis, parum convexus, niger, nitidus; antennis rufis, pedibus piceis; pronoto punctulato; elytris striis 5 dorsalibus et suturali integris; propygidio pygidioque dense punctatis. L. 2.1/2 mill.

Larger and more ovate than E. comptus; the head is very finely punctured, with a transverse stria between the eyes. The thorax is clearly punctate, and rather thickly so at the base in front of the scutellum; the interstices of the elytral striae are all finely punctured.

The type of this species came from a rotten tree in the ground of Kasuga no Miya, at Nara, June 1881, and I believe all the species of this genus are of arboreal halbits. I have only one specimen."

Distribution. Japan (Honshu).

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