“…Tripteroides bambusa (Yamada), 1917 was originally described based on specimens from Tokyo, Fukushima, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, and Kagoshima in the Palaearctic region of Japan (Palaearctic Japan), and known to occur throughout Japan, i.e., Hokkaido to the Ryukyu Archipelago (Yaeyama and Tokara Islands), Taiwan, Korea and China (Yamada, 1917(Yamada, , 1927Morishita and Okada, 1955;Lien, 1962Lien, , 1978Knight and Stone, 1977;Miyagi et al, 1983;Tanaka, 2014). After that, Tanaka et al (1979) have described as new subspecies, Tp.…”