New and little known taxa of neotenic lyropaeine net-winged beetles (Coleoptera Lycidae)
Author
Kazantsev, Sergey V.
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-29
4965
3
437
460
journal article
7000
10.11646/zootaxa.4965.3.2
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Genus
Macrolibnetis
Pic, 1938
Macrolibnetis
Pic, 1938: 280
.
Type
species:
Macrolibnetis depressus
Pic, 1938
(by monotypy).
Remarks.
The genus
Macrolibnetis
Pic, 1938
was separated by the author of the taxon from the similar
Platerodrilus
Pic, 1921
only by the relatively smaller head, longer narrow antennae and wider in distal portion elytra (
Pic, 1938
), but was placed in a different family,
Lycidae
, whereas
Platerodrilus
in Pic’s opinion belonged to
Drilidae
.
Macrolibnetis
was synonymized with
Platerodrilus
after its
holotype
was studied (
Bocakova, 2001
), but was reinstated later based on the data provided by molecular analyses (
Bocak & Bocakova, 2008
;
Masek & Bocak, 2014
). Only one species is described in this genus.