Hister punctulatus Wiedemann, 1819: 162 [Java]; Marseul, 1854: 256, t. 7, f. 60; Marseul, 1873: 220 [noted, Japan: Kyûshû]; Nakane, 1981: 9 [listed].
Hister (Hister) punctulatus: Bickhardt, 1910a: 47 [catalogued]; Desbordes, 1919: 389 [Inde, Inde-chine, Ile Quelparert, Java].
Hister (Zabromorphus) punctulatus: Bickhardt, 1917: 177 [catalogued]; Kamiya and Takagi, 1938: 29 [listed].
Zabromorphus punctulatus: Mazur, 1984: 166 [noted of subsp. salebrosus]; Mazur, 1984: 204 [catalogued]; Hisamatsu, 1985: 227, pl. 41, f. 9 [noted, photo].
Japanese name: Arame-emma-mushi.
Hister punctulatus Wiedemann, 1819, 162.
Hister punctulatus: Lewis, 1915, 55 [Horisha].
Hister (Zabromorphus) punctulatus: Miwa, 1931, 56 [Shinten]; Kamiya and Takagi, 1938, 29.
Zabromorphus punctulatus: Ohara, 1994, 132 [Japan; Taiwan: Taichung].
Zabromorphus salebrosus subsolanus Newton in Johnson et al, 1991, 13
Specimens examined (Ohara, 1999).
[Taiwan: Proper] Taichung Hsien: Taichung (2 exs., 5/v/1907), S. Matsumura (Ohara, 1994: 135).
[Korea] Jeonranam-do: Sunchon (= Suncheon), 16/iv/1995 (1 ex., J.-C. Paik). Cheju-do: Kyo-rae, 20/ix/1991 (1 ex., J.-C. Paik). Is. Mara-do: 9/vii/1993, 26/v, 25/vi/1994 (3 exs., J.-C. Paik).
Taiwan; Japan; Korea; Indonesia (Java; Celebes; Sumatra); Philippines; Vietnam; Burma; continental China; India.