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Issue: Vol. 5528 No. 1: 23 Oct. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5528.1.12
Page range: 133-152
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A review of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from southeastern China, with descriptions of six new species from the Nanling Mountains

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution; Institute of Zoology; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing 100101; China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application; School of Life Sciences; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China; Hebei Basic Science Center for Biotic Interaction; Hebei University; Baoding 071002; China
Coleoptera Net-winged beetles Plateros alpha taxonomy new species China

Abstract

We review the species of the lycid genus Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 from Southeast China in this study. Six new species are described, including P. flavihumeralis sp. nov., P. incurvusimimus sp. nov., P. dinghuensis sp. nov., P. gracilis sp. nov., P. nanlingensis sp. nov., and P. nigripennis sp. nov. P. laocaensis Kazantsev, 2011 is recorded to China for the first time. Five previously known species, including P. chinensis Waterhouse, 1879, P. planatus planatus Waterhouse, 1879, P. propinquus (Waterhouse, 1879), P. incurvus (Bocáková, 1997) and P. laocaensis are illustrated with macrophotographs of habitus and aedeagi to make comparison with new species. In addition, a distribution map and a key to species of Plateros from Southeast China are provided.

 

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