Two new species of the genus Petaloscapus Jeannel, 1958 are described from Tsushima and Gotô Islands, Kyushu, Japan. Their new names and the type localities in parenthesis are as follows: P. hirashimai sp. nov. (Tsushima Is., Nagasaki Pref.), P. morimotoi sp. nov. (Fukuejima Is., Gotô Isls., Nagasaki Pref.).
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