dc:description"FIGURES 1–4. Habitus of Dactylosternum spp. from China and Japan. 1: D. abdominale (Fabricius, 1792), 2: D. corbetti Balfour-Browne, 1942, 3: D. nanlingensis sp. nov., 4: D. pui Jia, 2002";
dc:description"FIGURES 17-19. Morphology of Dactylosternum spp. 17: hind wing of D. nanlingensis sp. nov., 18–19: Anterior margin of clypeus of D. hydrophiloides and D. pseudolatum sp. nov. (18: D. hydrophiloides (arrow indicates the marginal rim on anterior margin of clypeus), 19: D. pseudolatum sp. nov. (without marginal rim on anterior margin of clypeus))";
dc:description"FIGURES 20–24. Aedeagus of Dactylosternum spp. 20: D. abdominale (specimen from Yonaguni-jima Island, Japan, dorsal view, showing variation of apex of paramera) 21: D. corbetti, 22: D. pui (phallobase missing), 23: D. nanlingensis sp. nov., paratype (23a: ventral view, 23b: dorsal view), 24: D. hydrophiloides";
dc:description"FIGURES 39–47. Morphology characters of Dactylosternum spp. SEM micrographs. 39–40: antennal club (39: D. nanlingensis sp. nov., 40: D. abdominale), 41–42: ventral surface of mesofemora (41: D. pui, 42: D. nanlingensis sp. nov.), 43–47: punctures on pronotum (43: D. pui, 44: D. songxiaobini sp. nov. (surface with two sizes of punctures, the blue arrow indicates the coarser puncture, the yellow arrow indicates the finer puncture), 45: D. nanlingensis sp. nov., 46: D. corbetti (arrow indicates two short divergent lines connected with a puncture), 47: D. abdominale (arrow indicates mesh-like microsculpture between punctures))";
dc:description"FIGURES 48–63. Morphology characters of Dactylosternum spp. SEM micrographs. 48–50: mediobasal portion of elytron (48: D. songxiaobini sp. nov. (red arrows show primary serial punctures, green arrows show secondary serial punctures), 49: D. nanlingensis sp. nov., 50: D. corbetti), 51–55: punctures on posterior half of elytron (51: D. hydrophiloides (the red arrow indicates the ground puncture, the blue arrow indicates the micropuncture), 52: D. pseudolatum sp. nov., 53: D. salvazai, 54: D. latum, 55: D. frater sp. nov.), 56–59: anteromedial portion of metaventrite (56: D. pseudolatum sp. nov., 57: D. salvazai, 58: D. latum, 59: D. frater sp. nov.), 60–63: posteromedial portion of ventrite 5 (60: D. pseudolatum sp. nov., 61: D. salvazai, 62: D. latum, 63: D. frater sp. nov.)";
dc:description"FIGURES 64–69. Habitats of Dactylosternum spp. 64, 66: individual specimen of D. nanlingensis sp. nov. on the surface of a fallen wood in forest at night, 65: habitats of D. abdominale (Fabricius, 1792), D. corbetti Balfour-Browne, 1942 and D. hydrophiloides (MacLeay, 1825), specimens hiding in a decaying banana tree, 67: D. abdominale, 68: D. corbetti, 69: D. hydrophiloides. Figures 64, 66 photo by Mr. Bao-Ping Huang in Ruyuan County, Tianjingshan National Forest Park.";