Japanese name: Matsu-naga-emmamushi
Platysoma pini Lewis, 1884: 133 [Japan].
Platylister pini: Hisamatsu, 1984: 229, pl. 41, no. 29.
Platysoma (Platylister) pini: Ohara, 1994, 103.
Japanese name: Matsu-naga-emma-mushi.
Original description.
"Ovale, subconvexum, nigrum, laeve; fronte clypeoque concavis, stria transversa integra; pronoto stria non interrupta; elytris striis 1 - 4 integris, 5 breviori, 6 nulla; propygidio biimpresso pygidio margine clevato, grosse punctatis; antennis pedibusque brunneis. L. 5 mill.
Closely allied to H. odiosum (Marseuli, Cand.), but smaller; with a different system of dorsal striation.
Occurs under pine-bark in the warmer parts of Japan; Higo and Isei are the chief localities for it."
[Honshû] Aomori-ken: Towada, Hiraka-machi (1 ex., 24/vi/1977, APM), K. Shimoyama; Mt. Rangannomori, Ajigasawa-machi (1 ex., 4/vii/1982; 1 ex., 19/vi/1983; APM), A. Abe. Nara-ken: Arakami, Nosegawa-mura, Yoshino-gun (1 ex., 10/vii/1995), T. Itoh.
Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Taiwan.
