Ando, K. 2017. Additional Study of Some Little Known Species of the Genus Phaedis Pascoe (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), with Descriptions of Five New Species . Special Bulletin of the Coleopterological Society of Japan, (1): . 139－157.

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Phaedis magniceps (Pic, 1927) and P. semiviolaceus (Pic, 1921) are redescribed. Phaedis
indicus Blair, 1931 is synonymised with P. magniceps (Pic, 1927). Five new species, P. andamanus sp. nov. (Andaman Isls.), P. australis sp. nov. (New Guinea), P. chalceus sp. nov. (Mindoro Is.), P.leyteanus sp. nov. (Leyte Is.), and P. niisatoi sp. nov. (Mindanao Is.), are described. This genus is first recorded from Andaman Isls. and New Guinea.