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AF5C87DEEC0CFFA3FF5CB3DC75569E1C.text	AF5C87DEEC0CFFA3FF5CB3DC75569E1C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera Latreille 1829	<div><p>Genus Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829</p><p>Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829: 464 .</p><p>Type species: Pyrochroa aurora Herbst, 1784 (subsequent designation by Duponchel, 1849).</p><p>= Dictyopterus Mulsant, 1838: 79 .</p><p>Type species: Pyrochroa aurora Herbst, 1784 (subsequent designation by Duponchel, 1849).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC0CFFA3FF5CB3DC75569E1C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera wuyishanensis Kazantsev 2025	<div><p>Dictyoptera wuyishanensis Kazantsev sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs 1A, 1B, 2A–C)</p><p>MATERIAL. China: Holotype, ♂, ‘CHINA-JIANGXI, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=117.333336&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=27.9" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 117.333336/lat 27.9)">Wuyishan</a>, Xipaihe village, 1500 m, 27°54’ N, 117°20’ E, V.2004, V. Siniaev leg.’ (ICM).</p><p>DESCRIPTION. Male. Dark brown; pronotum, except at disk, scutellum apically, and elytra red; head in front of eyes and pronotal disk reddish brown (Fig. 1A).</p><p>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. 1A).</p><p>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. 1A).</p><p>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. 1A).</p><p>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).</p><p>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. 2A).</p><p>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 2B, 2C).</p><p>Length: 9.4 mm. Width at humeri: 2.4 mm.</p><p>Female. Unknown.</p><p>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. 1A) and longer, 1.5 times longer wide, almost straight anteriorly at the base, and spinose at hind angle hind trochanters (Fig. 1B), as well as by the more narrow, in dorso-ventral view, and straight, in lateral view, median piece of the aedeagus (Figs 2B, 2C). In D. aurora the eyes are smaller, their diameter is ca 2 times less than the interocular distance, hind tibiae are more curved (Fig. 1E), and hind trochanters are shorter, 1.3 times longer wide, noticeably curved anteriorly at base, and rounded at hind angle (Fig. 2F). The median piece of the aedeagus in D. aurora is broader, in dorso-ventral view, and convex, in lateral view (Figs 2G, 2H). 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 1A, 1B and Figs 1C, 1D) and aedeagus (Figs 2B, 2C and Figs 2E, 2F).</p><p>ETYMOLOGY. The new species is named after the Wuyishan mountains in Jiangxi (eastern China), where the unique type specimen was collected .</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. Jiangxi, eastern China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC0CFFA1FF5CB2CB73B69A96	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB1C573139FB7.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera forticornis Pic 1942	<div><p>Dictyoptera forticornis Pic, 1942</p><p>Dictyoptera forticornis Pic, 1942: 1 .</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. ‘China’.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB1C573139FB7	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB26C73859915.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera gansuensis Kazantsev 2004	<div><p>Dictyoptera gansuensis Kazantsev, 2004</p><p>(Figs 1C, 1D, 2D–F)</p><p>Dictyoptera gansuensis Kazantsev, 2004: 25 .</p><p>MATERIAL. Russia: Holotype, ♂, ‘China, S Gansu, Tsagan (70 km W Wudu), 2300–2400 m, 16–17.VI.2001, S. Kazantsev leg.’ (ICM).</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. Gansu, central China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC09FFA6FF5CB26C73859915	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC09FFA7FF5CB5F273C49F66.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera marginicollis Boheman 1858	<div><p>Dictyoptera marginicollis Boheman, 1858</p><p>Dictyoptera marginicollis Boheman, 1858: 73 .</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>DISTRIBUTION. Hong Kong, eastern China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC09FFA7FF5CB5F273C49F66	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC08FFA7FF5CB3DC748E9E1C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helcophorus Fairmaire 1891	<div><p>Genus Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1891</p><p>Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1891: cxxix.</p><p>Type species: Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1891 (by monotypy).</p><p>= Xylobanoides Kleine, 1929: 237 .</p><p>Type species: Xylobanus unicolor Gorham, 1903 (= Helcophorus miniatus Fairmaire, 1891) (synonymy by Kazantsev, 1993b).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC08FFA7FF5CB3DC748E9E1C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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.text	AF5C87DEEC08FFA4FF5CB2CB72D49C1A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Helcophorus bicoloricornis (Pic 1933) Kazantsev 2025	<div><p>Helcophorus bicoloricornis (Pic, 1933), comb. nov.</p><p>Pyropterus bicoloricornis Pic, 1933: 110 .</p><p>Dictyoptera bicoloricornis: Bocak &amp; Bocakova, 1991; Kazantsev, 2004; Bocakova &amp; Bocak, 2007; Kazantsev, 2012. Pyropterus bicoloricollis (sic!): Kleine, 1933.</p><p>REMARKS. The description of Pyropterus bicoloricornis reads as follows: ‘ Oblongus, subopacus, pubescens, rubro-mineaceus, articulus 4e et sequesntibus antennarum, oculis et tarsis apice nigris; antennis validis, pilosis, articulo 3e 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).</p><p>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) .</p><p>The specimen studied as the Holotype of Pyropterus bicoloricornis Pic, 1933 (Bocak &amp; 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.IV1918, 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.</p><p>Distribution. China, Sichuan, Tatsienlu (‘Tatsiculu’), now Kanding.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC08FFA4FF5CB2CB72D49C1A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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
AF5C87DEEC0BFFA4FF5CB0C1748E9E74.text	AF5C87DEEC0BFFA4FF5CB0C1748E9E74.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Dictyoptera Latreille 1829	<div><p>Key to Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 of continental China</p><p>1. Upperside mostly black-brown, only pronotum with broad testaceous margin; antennomere 2 small.............................................................................................. D. marginicollis Boheman, 1858</p><p>– Upperside mostly red; antennomere 2 only slightly shorter than antennomere 3 (Figs 1, 3)........................... 2</p><p>2. Pronotum uniformly red............................................................ D. forticornis Pic, 1942</p><p>– Pronotum bicolored (Figs 1, 3).......................................................................... 3</p><p>3. Body robust, elytra three times longer than wide at humeri; pronotum dark brown, with reddish margins and ribs; scutellum widened distally; elytra slightly dehiscent at suture, in the middle and near apex (Fig. 3); hind trochanters more or less rightangled posteriorly (Fig. 4); aedeagus short and robust, with widened distally median piece; phallobase as long as median piece with parameres (Figs 11, 12)................................................... D. gansuensis Kazantsev, 2004</p><p>– Body elongate, elytra 3.6 times longer than wide at humeri; pronotum red, infuscate in disk; scutellum narrowed distally; elytra straight at suture (Fig. 1); hind trochanters spinose at posterior angle (Fig. 2); aedeagus narrow, with not widened distally median piece; phallobase ca. 2.7 times shorter than median piece with parameres (Figs 8, 9).... D. wuyishanensis sp. nov.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF5C87DEEC0BFFA4FF5CB0C1748E9E74	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Kazantsev, S. V.	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
