Abstract
The omaliine genus Arpedium Erichson, 1839 currently includes six species in the Holarctic region. Two of them occur in the Palaearctic region, A. quadrum (Gravenhorst, 1806) with a trans-Palaearctic distribution and A. nepalicum Coiffait, 1982 from Nepal (Herman 2001; Smetana 2004).
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