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Abstract
Four new cantharid species are described: Lycocerus parameratus sp. nov. (China: Guangdong, Hunan); L. nigroapicis sp. nov. (China: Guangxi); L. bifurcatus sp. nov. (China: Guangdong); and L. nigrigenus sp. nov. (China: Zhejiang, Fujian), which are provided with photos of habitus of males and illustrations of aedeagi and abdominal sternites VIII of females. The new species are related to L. kuatunensis (Wittmer, Citation1995), which is provided with a supplementary description and illustration of abdominal sternite VIII of the female. A key to the aforementioned five species is given. The type localities of the new species Lycocerus parameratus sp. nov., L. nigroapicis sp. nov., L. bifurcatus sp. nov. and L. nigrigenus sp. nov. and the broadened distribution of L. kuatunensis are mapped. http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:234EFDD7-6EDF-4FEC-9FDC-3A4D106E6C6A
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Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr Michel Brancucci (Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Switzerland) for his help during our visit, and to Dr Hong Pang (Sun Yat-Sen Uiversity, Guangzhou, China) and Dr Guo-Qing Liu (College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China) for loaning some studied material. The present study was supported by the National Basic Program of China (973 Program) (No. 2011CB302102), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31010103913, No. 31172135), the Knowledge Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nos. KSCX2-EW-G-4) and a grant (No. O529YX5105) from the Key Laboratory of the Zoological Systematics and Evolution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.