taxonID	type	description	language	source
E72787DBFFACFF97FF3AD2DDFE38FEA4.taxon	description	Description. Adult male. Alate, flattened, elongate (Fig. 1). Head transverse, slightly exposed. Eyes moderately large, spherical (Figs 2 – 3). Labrum short. Palps small, slender; ultimate palpomeres securiform. Labium with elongate undivided prementum and short annuliform mentum. Gula short, transverse (Fig. 2). Antennal sockets separated by ca. 2 / 3 their diameter. Antenna 11 - segmented, relatively short, antennomeres cylindrical; pedicel (antennomere 2) about as long as wide, about twice as short as antennomere 3, antennomere 3 about twice as short as subsequent antennomeres; pubescence on antennomeres 3 – 11 short and suberect (Figs 1 – 3). Pronotum transverse, rounded anteriorly, with complete median and lateral and short antero-lateral carinae; posterior angles acute (Fig. 1). Prosternum short, V-shaped (Fig. 2). Scutellum square, truncate at apex (Fig. 1). Mesoventrite undivided, with almost straight anterior margin, separated from mesopleuron by sterno-pleural segment. Discrimen almost complete, bifurcate near mesoventrite (Fig. 2). Elytra elongate, flattened, almost parallel-sided, with stout humeral elytral costa (costa 4) and almost obsolete proximally costa 3, with double rows of irregular weak cells in interstices; pubescence uniform, short and decumbent (Fig. 1). Epipleuron absent (Fig. 4). Metathoracic wings fully developed. Legs relatively short and robust; hind coxae conspicuously separated; pro- and mesotrochantins subequal in size; trochanters short; femurs and tibiae straight, tibiae and femurs subequal in length, almost non-widened distally; tarsomeres 1 – 4 slightly widened, with plantar pads, plantar pad occupying ca. 1 / 2 of tarsomere 1 (Figs 2 – 4); claws simple. Abdomen with eight ventrites; penultimate ventrite with wide semicircular incision, exposed portion of ultimate ventrite elongate, elliptical; ventrites without photic organs (Fig. 2). Female. Unknown.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFACFF97FF3AD2DDFE38FEA4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Protolopheros gen. n. may be unmistakably referred to the erotine complex of net-winged beetles due to a combination of characters, above all the antennal structure, the very characteristic pronotal pattern and strong elytral costae with evident reticulation (Fig. 1). Based on the erotine key (Kazantsev, 2004), the new fossil genus would key to Lopheros Leconte, 1881, at the same time easily distinguishable from Lopheros and related genera (Aplatopterus Reitter, 1911, Eulopheros Kazantsev, 1995) by the short, but conspicuous antero-lateral pronotal carinae (Fig. 1), stout humeral elytral costa (costa 4) and almost obsolete proximally elytral costa 3, combined with irregular elytral reticulation (Fig. 1). Aplatopterus was not included in the 2004 key as not valid at that time, but was consequently validated (Kazantsev, 2012 a) on the basis of a cladistic analysis (Kazantsev, 2010). Although Protolopheros gen. n. is distinguished from the related genera by the stout humeral elytral costa, just as the amber subgenera of Kolibaceum or Pseudaplatopterus, it also differs by the pronotal and certain other details of the elytral structure, and apparently deserves the genus rank.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFACFF97FF3AD2DDFE38FEA4.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name of the new genus is derived from the Latin for “ ancestor ”, and the genus name “ Lopheros ”. Gender masculine.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFAFFF97FF3AD425FC47FB8A.taxon	description	Description. Male. Dark brown. Eyes bulging, interocular dorsal distance ca. 2 times greater than eye radius. Ultimate maxillary and labial palpomeres considerably larger than preceding palpomeres, ca. 1.5 times longer than wide. Antennae filiform, attaining to elytral two fifths, with antennomeres 2 and 3 combined subequal in length to antennomere 4 (Figs 1 – 3). Pronotum transverse, ca. 1.4 times as wide as long, with rounded anterior and small acute posterior angles. Scutellum almost quadrate, truncate at apex (Fig. 1). Elytra flattened, long, 3.6 times as long as wide at humeri (Fig. 1). Tarsomere 1 only slightly shorter than tarsomeres 2 – 4 combined (Fig. 2). Length (from anterior head margin to end of elytra): 6.0 mm. Width (humerally): 2.0 mm. Syninclusions. None. Female. Unknown.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFAFFF97FF3AD425FC47FB8A.taxon	materials_examined	Type material: Holotype, 3, specimen No. 1424 - 1, Baltic amber, Eocene (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg, Germany).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFAFFF97FF3AD425FC47FB8A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Protolopheros hoffeinsorum sp. n., the only known representative of the genus, is easily distinguishable from other erotines by the generic characters.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFAFFF97FF3AD425FC47FB8A.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The new species is named after Christel Hoffeins and Hans Werner Hoffeins (Hamburg) who enabled me to study this remarkable Baltic amber beetle specimen.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFA8FF90FF3AD75DFCBDFD6F.taxon	distribution	Distribution. All species extant, Eastern Palaearctic and Nearctic.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFA8FF90FF3AD63BFE3FFA15.taxon	description	= Xylobanoides Kleine, 1928: 237 type species: Xylobanus unicolor Gorham, 1903 = Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987: 66 type species: Hiekeolycus berendti Winkler, 1987	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFA8FF90FF3AD63BFE3FFA15.taxon	distribution	Distribution. One fossil species known from the Baltic amber. Extant taxa in Eastern Palaearctic (Himalayas, Central China, Northern Vietnam). Helcophorus berendti (Winkler, 1987)	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFA8FF90FF3AD63BFE3FFA15.taxon	description	Hiekeolycus berendti Winkler, 1987: 67	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
E72787DBFFA8FF90FF3AD63BFE3FFA15.taxon	materials_examined	Material studied: 3, specimen No. 1151 - 2, Baltic amber, Eocene (Hoffeins Collection, Hamburg). Distribution. Baltic amber.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V. (2013): A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 3608 (1): 94-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
