Anaspis emarginata Schilsky (Figs 1, 21, 30) 1♂ (BMNH) Mongolia bor. Reitter. Possibly syntype of A. emarginata. 1♂ (ZMHB) MVR, Bogd-ul Ulan Bator, 21.vi.1988, U. Göllner. These specimens have the vertex of the head, pronotum and elytra black; fronto-clypeus below antennal insertions and labrum yellow; proepisternum, meso-, metasternum and abdomen dark brown to black; legs light brown; antenna with first six segments yellow and the last five segments brown. 3♂, 3♀ (BMNH) N. China, Heilunkiang, Erlungshan, 6.vi.1965 & 29.V.1966, P.M. Hammond. These speci- mens are predominantly yellow. The males have only the abdomen, upper part of the vertex and only the most apical one to four antennal segments dark brown to black. The females sometimes have the abdomen and head also entirely yellow, and only the last segment of the antennae dark. This variation in colour is not atypical in Anaspis species and is the reason I suspect from the original description that A. mongolica is probably the same species as A. emarginata.

Published as part of Levey, Brian, 2020, A review of the species of Anaspis (s. str.) similar to A. nigripes Brisout and A. apfelbecki Schilsky, with the description of three new species (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae), pp. 509-520 in Zootaxa 4778 (3) on page 516, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/3828759