taxonID	type	description	language	source
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA3FF5CB3DC75569E1C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Pyrochroa aurora Herbst, 1784 (subsequent designation by Duponchel, 1849).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA3FF5CB3DC75569E1C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Pyrochroa aurora Herbst, 1784 (subsequent designation by Duponchel, 1849).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	description	(Figs 1 A, 1 B, 2 A – C)	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. China: Holotype, ♂, ‘ CHINA-JIANGXI, Wuyishan, Xipaihe village, 1500 m, 27 ° 54 ’ N, 117 ° 20 ’ E, V. 2004, V. Siniaev leg. ’ (ICM).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	description	DESCRIPTION. Male. Dark brown; pronotum, except at disk, scutellum apically, and elytra red; head in front of eyes and pronotal disk reddish brown (Fig. 1 A). Head transverse, vertex densely micro-granulose. Eyes relatively large, interocular distance ca 1.5 times greater than eye diameter. Labrum narrow, transverse, slightly concave anteriorly. Palps relatively short; ultimate palpomeres elongate, widest near middle, gradually narrowed distally. Antennal sockets separated by moderately wide lamina. Antennae moderately long, reaching over mid-elytra, filiform, except conical, widening distally antennomere 3; antennomere 3 ca 2 times longer than antennomere 2 and ca 1.4 times shorter than antennomere 4, antennomeres 3 – 11 with short dense sub-erect pubescence (Fig. 1 A). Pronotum transverse, ca 1.7 times wider than long, semi-circularly produced anteriorly, with sinuate before posterior angles sides, long acute posterior and inconspicuous anterior angles; median cell rhomboidal, with slightly concave posterior sides. Scutellum elongate, triangular, oblong at apex, with minute emargination distally (Fig. 1 A). Elytra long, ca 3.2 times longer than wide at humeri and ca 5.5 times longer than pronotum, very slightly widening distally, non-dehiscent at suture, with four complete longitudinal costae and doubles rows of small regular sub-rectangular cells in the interstices; pubescence only on costae and ribs, short (Fig. 1 A). Legs moderately long, slender; hind trochanters ca 1.5 times longer than wide, almost straight anteriorly at base, spinose at hind angle; hind tibiae straight; hind tarsomere length ratio: 2: 1.4: 1: 1: 2 (Fig. 1). Ultimate abdominal ventrite elongate, in proximal half narrow, parallel-sided, pointed at base, in distal half relatively narrow, oval; ultimate abdominal tergites (tergites 8 and 9) oval, gradually tapering distally (Fig. 2 A). Aedeagus elongate, parallel-sided in dorsoventral view, with elongate, straight, narrow, in dorsoventral view, and straight and conspicuously widened proximally, in lateral view, median piece; parameres slightly shorter than median piece, medially incised and narrowed, in lateral view, near apex; phallobase, in dorsoventral view, elongate, slightly widened proximally, ca 4.2 times longer than wide and ca 2.7 times shorter than median piece with parameres (Figs 2 B, 2 C). Length: 9.4 mm. Width at humeri: 2.4 mm. Female. Unknown.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	diagnosis	DIAGNOSIS. Dictyoptera wuyishanensis sp. nov. is similar habitually to D. aurora, from which it may be distinguished by the larger eyes, whose diameter is only 1.5 times less than the interocular distance, straighter hind tibiae (Fig. 1 A) and longer, 1.5 times longer wide, almost straight anteriorly at the base, and spinose at hind angle hind trochanters (Fig. 1 B), as well as by the more narrow, in dorso-ventral view, and straight, in lateral view, median piece of the aedeagus (Figs 2 B, 2 C). In D. aurora the eyes are smaller, their diameter is ca 2 times less than the interocular distance, hind tibiae are more curved (Fig. 1 E), and hind trochanters are shorter, 1.3 times longer wide, noticeably curved anteriorly at base, and rounded at hind angle (Fig. 2 F). The median piece of the aedeagus in D. aurora is broader, in dorso-ventral view, and convex, in lateral view (Figs 2 G, 2 H). The new species is easily separable from D. gansuensis Kazantsev, 2004, from central China, by the coloration, non-dehiscent at suture elytra, structure of the hind trochanter (compare Figs 1 A, 1 B and Figs 1 C, 1 D) and aedeagus (Figs 2 B, 2 C and Figs 2 E, 2 F).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	etymology	ETYMOLOGY. The new species is named after the Wuyishan mountains in Jiangxi (eastern China), where the unique type specimen was collected.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. Jiangxi, eastern China.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB1C573139FB7.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. The description of Dictyoptera forticornis reads as follows: Parum robustus, opacus, niger, supra ruber; antennis robustis, filiformis, articulo 3 robusto, 2 paulo longiore; thorace parum transverso, quinquenal et fortiter areolato; elytris parum regulariter bifenestriatis. [Slightly robust, opaque, black, red above; antennae robust, filiform, with antennomere 3 robust, slightly longer than antennomere 2; thorax slightly transverse, with five strong areoles; elytra slightly regularly bifenestrated] Long. 9 m. Chine. — Voisin de aurora Her., antennes plus robustes, sculpture élytrale moins régulière (Pic, 1942). The characters distinguishing the taxon from D. aurora, the more robust antennae and less regular elytral sculpture, actually lie within the infraspecific variability of this vastly distributed species, and if the specimen used for the description had been taken not far from the Russo-Chinese border, it could easily be D. aurora. Unfortunately, indication of just ‘ China’ as the place where the type specimen was collected does not contribute much to making a decision, and apparently only the examination of the type specimen, if it is found, could help determine the status of the taxon.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB1C573139FB7.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. ‘ China’.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB26C73859915.taxon	description	(Figs 1 C, 1 D, 2 D – F)	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB26C73859915.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. Russia: Holotype, ♂, ‘ China, S Gansu, Tsagan (70 km W Wudu), 2300 – 2400 m, 16 – 17. VI. 2001, S. Kazantsev leg. ’ (ICM).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB26C73859915.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. Gansu, central China.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA7FF5CB5F273C49F66.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. The detailed description of Dictyoptera marginicollis reads as follows: ‘ Oblongus, parum convexus, nigro-fuscus, sub-opacus, breviter pubescens; prothorace subtiliter punctato, utrinque longitudinaliter impresso, late flavotestaceo-marginato; elytris crebre, mediocriter punctato-striatis, interstituus angustis, leviter elevatis ’ Long. 4 3 / 4, lat. 1 3 / 4 millim. Patria: China (Hongkong). — Caput deflexum, rotundatim, leviter convexum, nigrum, sub-opacum, basi latum, os versus angustatum, sub-rostratum. Palpi nigro-fusci. Oculi rotundati, convexi, distantes, nigri. Antennae longitudine dimidii corporis, crassae, compressae, nigrae, pubescentes, articulo secundo parvo, ferrugineo. Prothorax latitudine postica brevior, apice rotundatus, basi truncatus, lateribus pone apicem rotundato-ampliatus, dein sensimoblique dilatatis, angulis posticis retrosum productis, acuminatis; superne in dorso leviter convexus, subtiliter punctulatus, nigro-fuscus, sub-nitidus, utrinque longitudinalliter impressus, late, confuse flavotestaceo-marginatus, extus reflexus. Scutellum triangulare, nigro-fuscum, sub-opacum. Elytra antice truncata, prothorace non latiora at illo fere quadruplo longiora, pone basin sensim nonnehil ampliata, apice conjuctum rotundata, superne fere plana, nigro-fusca, sub-opaca, breviter, minus dense pubescentia, mediocriter, crebre punctata-striata, interstitiis angustis, leviter elevatis. Corpus subtus nigro-fuscum, opacum, breviter, parce pubescens. Pedes graciles, nigro-fusci; femoribus anterioribus basi flavo-testaceis [Oblong, slightly convex, blackish-brown, sub-opaque, briefly pubescent; prothorax finely punctate, longitudinally impressed on both sides, broadly yellow-testaceously margined; elytra densely, moderately punctate-striated, with narrow, slightly elevated interstices. Length 4 3 / 4, width 1 3 / 4 millim. Patria: China (Hongkong). — Head deflexed, rounded, slightly convex, black, sub-opaque, broad at the base, narrowed towards the mouth, sub-rostrate. Palps black-brown. Eyes rounded, convex, distant, black. Antennae half the length of the body, thick, compressed, black, pubescent, with a small rusty second joint. Prothorax shorter than wide posteriorly, rounded at the apex, truncate at the base, laterally with a rounded-enlarged apex, then sensibly dilated, posterior corners produced backwards, acuminate; above on the back slightly convex, subtly punctuated, black-brown, sub-bright, longitudinally impressed on both sides, broadly, confusedly yellow-testaceous-margined, externally reflexed. Scutellum triangular, black-brown, sub-opaque. Elytra truncate at the front, not wider, but almost four times longer than prothorax, base slightly widened, apex rounded, almost flat above, black-brown, sub-opaque, briefly, less densely pubescent, moderately, frequently punctate-striated, with narrow, slightly elevated interstices. Body black-brown underneath, opaque, briefly, sparsely pubescent. Legs slender, black-brown; anterior femora yellowish at base] (Boheman, 1858). The sub-rostrate head, short second antennomere, pronotum laterally with a ‘ rounded-enlarged apex’ and punctate-striated elytra of D. marginicollis mentioned in the description suggest this species may not belong to Dictyoptera, but rather to some other genus, perhaps, not of the subfamily Erotinae, and maybe not even to Lycidae. A study of the type specimen is needed to clarify the actual systematic position of this taxon.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC09FFA7FF5CB5F273C49F66.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. Hong Kong, eastern China.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC08FFA7FF5CB3DC748E9E1C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1891 (by monotypy).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC08FFA7FF5CB3DC748E9E1C.taxon	materials_examined	Type species: Xylobanus unicolor Gorham, 1903 (= Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1891) (synonymy by Kazantsev, 1993 b).	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC08FFA4FF5CB2CB72D49C1A.taxon	discussion	REMARKS. The description of Pyropterus bicoloricornis reads as follows: ‘ Oblongus, subopacus, pubescens, rubro-mineaceus, articulus 4 e et sequesntibus antennarum, oculis et tarsis apice nigris; antennis validis, pilosis, articulo 3 e secundo paulo longiore et latiore; thorace parum breve, lateraliter infra medium strangulato, angulis posticis valde prominulis, antice subarcuato, medio longe et late areolato, areola media lata, valde distincta; elytris latis, sat brevibus, ante medium paulo strangulatis, in singulo 4 costatis, costa tertia valde prominula, intervallis late, sat regulariter fenestriatis’ [Oblong, subopaque, pubescent, reddish-golden, joint 4 and following of antennae, eyes and tarsi at apex black; antennae strong, hairy, joint 3 slightly longer and wider than second; thorax slightly short, laterally strangulated below the middle, posterior corners very prominent, anteriorly sub-arched, in the middle long and widely areolate, median areola wide, very distinct; elytra wide, quite short, anteriorly slightly strangulated, each with 4 ribs, third rib very prominent, intervals widely, fairly regularly fenestrated]. ‘ Long. 9 mm. Tatsiculu (communiqué par Kleine). — Par sa coloration voisin de tricostatus Pic, en diffère par la forme assez trapue, le prothorax nettement étranglé, les élytres à aréoles des intervalles plus marquées avec le dessous du corps de la couleur du dessus’ (Pic, 1933). The elytral structure, with the ‘ very prominent’ third costa and one row of cells in the interstices (‘ fenestriatis’), indicates that this species is not a Dictyoptera, but a member of the genus Helcophorus. The genus was created by Fairmaire (1891) to accommodate a Himalayan lycid, Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1891, later omitted from the World Catalogue of the family (Kleine, 1933), and eventually forgotten, until finally rediscovered and revised (Kazantsev, 1990; 1996). Recently further species were added to the genus (Bocakova, 1994; Kazantsev, 2000, 2004, 2015), and currently ten species are attributed to Helcophorus, including H. bicoloricornis, comb. nov. Kazantsev (2012), considered the species to be a synonym of Dictyoptera quadricostata (Pic, 1927). The specimen studied as the Holotype of Pyropterus bicoloricornis Pic, 1933 (Bocak & Bocakova, 1991) does not agree with the description in having equally well-developed primary elytral costae and double rows of cells in the elytral interstices, whereas P. bicoloricornis is characterised by the distinctly more prominent third costa and a single row of cells in the interstices (Pic, 1933) (should the elytra have two rows of cells, Pic would have written ‘ bifenestriatis’, as in the description of D. forticornis above). Besides, the quoted locality label (‘ Tonkin, Chapa, 27. IV 1918, Jeanvoine lgt’) is different from what is given in the description (‘ Tatsiculu’), as already noted by Bocak and Bocakova (1991). Hence, the studied in 1991 specimen apparently is not the Holotype of Pyropterus bicoloricornis, but rather, judging by the shape of its aedeagus, a specimen of Dictyoptera phoupanensis Kazantsev, 2012, probably, erroneously identified as Pyropterus bicoloricornis by Pic himself.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
AF5C87DEEC08FFA4FF5CB2CB72D49C1A.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China, Sichuan, Tatsienlu (‘ Tatsiculu’), now Kanding.	en	Kazantsev, S. V. (2025): A review of Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Erotinae) of mainland China, with description of a new species from Jiangxi. Zootaxa 5729 (4): 581-589, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5729.4.6
