Bacanius (Bacanius) mikado (Lewis, 1892)
Abraeus mikado Lewis, 1892b: 356 [Japan].
Bacanius mikado: Schmidt, 1893: 238.
Bacanius (Bacanius) mikado: Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt, 1976: 269; Mazur, 1984: 122; Hisamatsu, 1985: 224, pl. 40, no. 21.
Japanese name: Ko-aka-tsubu-emma-mushi.
Oval, globose, reddish brown, shining, head darker, antennae and legs paler; the forehead sparsely punctured; the thorax and elytra evenly punctured, punctures shallow and not very thickly set, thoracic marginal stria complete, but very fine behind the neck; the propygidium and the pygidium are feebly and indistinctly punctulate; the prosternum a little wider than long, feebly and obscurely punctured, lateral striae slightly widen out from the base, the base very feebly sinuous; the meso- and metasterna and the first segment of the abdomen is evenly but not thickly covered with somewhat large and shallow punctures, the punctures being largest and most closely set at the widest part of the metasternum.
Hab. Japan. I found this species in Cossus-burrows at Kiga, Konose, Nara and in S. Yezo."
Koakatsubu-emmamushi: more detail distributional data (in Japanese).