New and little known taxa of Platerotini, with a note on biogeography of the tribe (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

First fossil representative of the net-winged beetles genus Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Mexican amber, with redescription of Electropteron avus gen.n., sp.n. from Dominican amber and a note on the time of origin of the family

“…around the place where its amber member was found, while the other, Platerotini, is distributed in all biogeographic realms, mostly in the Palaeotropics (e.g. Kleine, 1933;Kazantsev, 2011), with a considerable number of extant members in Mexico [ Zaragoza Caballero, 1999].…”

“…The inclusion could be undoubtedly referred to the extant genus Plateros Bourgeois, 1878, one of the largest in the family and one of the most widespread, including over 900 species distributed in all biogeographic realms, mostly in the Palaeotropics [e.g. Kleine, 1933;Kazantsev, 2011], with over 50 species in Mexico [Zaragoza Caballero, 1999]. The inclusion agrees in every detail with the diagnosis of the genus, but apparently represents a new species due to the combination of characters used in defining living congeners.…”

A checklist of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 from Africa, with description of new species (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

“…Plateros hippocampus sp.n. resembles P. afroguineensis Kazantsev, 2011, from Guinea, separable by the more robust and less hooked apically median lobe of the aedeagus (Figs 38-39).…”

A review of Plateros Bourgeois, 1879 of Indochina (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

“…The first species of the genus Plateros Bourgeois, 1879, one of the largest in the family of net-winged beetles and one of the most widespread, which includes over 900 species distributed in all biogeographic realms, mostly in the Palaeotropics (e.g., Kleine, 1933;Kazantsev, 2011), was registered in Indochina in the second half the nineteenth century [Fairmaire, 1888]. Later on, however, this species, P. sycophanta Fairmaire, 1888, was found to be conspecific with P. chinensis Waterhouse, 1879, described from China [Bocáková, 1997].…”