taxonID	type	description	language	source
577087E1432EFFAD0998240DFE0DFCA4.taxon	discussion	Remarks Dictyopterini was recently analyzed (Kazantsev 2004; Motyka et al. in press) and close relationships were recovered for a group of four genera: Pyropterus, Helcophorus, Benibotarus, and Gomezzuritus gen. nov., described here. Additionally, based on morphology, Greenarus Kazantsev, 1995 is added to this clade. The pyropterine genera are characterized by the wide pronotal areola that differs from the basally constricted areolae of other dictyopterine genera. Additionally, the antennomeres are subequal in length. None of these characters is clearly defined in all taxa and all specimens. The shape of the pronotal costae is particularly often variable, as net-winged beetles are soft-bodied. Therefore, we propose to use an informal designation, ‘ the Pyropterus clade’. We also avoid the description of a subtribe as Dictyopterini is a relatively small group and we are still unsure about the relationships of some dictyopterine taxa. An eventual reclassification would have to consider the entire global diversity.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432EFFAD0998240DFE0DFCA4.taxon	distribution	Distribution The pyropterine clade is distributed in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, and Oriental (northern part only, i. e., northern Thailand and Laos) realms (Masek et al. 2018; Kazantsev, 2020). Fossil taxa of these groups have been recorded from Baltic and Rovno amber (Kazantsev & Perkovsky 2022).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432FFFAA098F2310FE5EF9D8.taxon	description	urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 5 D 12 D 1 EC- 7 B 41 - 4216 - 8 A 7 A- 6717 D 92 EF 390	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432FFFAA098F2310FE5EF9D8.taxon	type_taxon	Type species Dictyopterus alternatus Fairmaire, 1856.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432FFFAA098F2310FE5EF9D8.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis The adults of Benibotarus, Greenarus, and Gomezzuritus gen. nov. share three primary costae in each elytron and developed secondary costae. The new genus may be distinguished from Benibotarus and Greenarus by the general appearance (the elytra of Gomezzuritus are apparently more slender), erect pubescence on male antennomeres 3 – 11 (distinctly decumbent in Benibotarus and Greenarus), and noticeably more oval median pronotal areola (Figs 1 B, 2 G). More diamond-shaped / rhomboidal areolae are known in Benibotarus and Greenarus. Pyropterus has similarly wide roundish areola, but four primary costae in elytra. Additionally, Gomezzuritus differs from the other two genera in the preapically toothed median lobe of the aedeagus (Fig. 2 I – K; Bocak & Bocakova 1987; Kazantsev 1995, 2004). The larva of Gomezzuritus gen. nov., being quite similar to Pyropterus, can be distinguished by the noticeably less transverse tergite 9 (only ca 1.3 × as wide as long), the location of abdominal spiracles at a distance from the dorsal edge of the epipleurite, and the larger size of the spiracle of abdominal segment 1 compared to the spiracles of segments 2 – 7. In contrast, Pyropterus has the tergite 9 conspicuously transverse (ca. twice wider than long), its abdominal spiracles are located at the dorsal edge of the epipleurite, and the spiracle of the abdominal segment 1 does not noticeably surpass in size those on segments 2 – 7 (Bocak & Matsuda 2003; Kazantsev & Nikitsky 2011). The larvae are known for two species of Gomezzuritus as G. longicornis comb. nov. whose larva was recently reported (Kazantsev & Zaitsev 2021) is transferred to this genus. As a result, the larva of Benibotarus remains unknown. Larvae of several more distant Dictyopterini genera have been described. The larva of Gomezzuritus is easily distinguishable from that of Dictyoptera by the divided tergite 9 (Kazantsev & Nikitsky 2011; Motyka et al. 2022). The other known larva of Dictyopterini is Punicealis medvedevi Kazantsev, 1990. The larva was earlier reported as unidentified Dictyopterini by Levkanicova & Bocak (2009). Now, with a much denser sampling of Dictyopterini, the adult was associated with earlier sequenced larva (Fig. 1 A; vouchers ZL 2013 and MK 1061). The larva of P. medvedevi differs from Gomezzuritus and Pyropterus in a relatively slender and simply rounded pygidium, entire tergites with an incomplete fracture in the middle of the longitudinal midline, and almost straight posterior margin of the ventral cranial plate (see Levkanicova & Bocak 2009).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432FFFAA098F2310FE5EF9D8.taxon	etymology	Etymology The new genus is named in honour of the Spanish entomologist Jesus Gomez-Zurita Frau (Barcelona, Spain), who is a well-known molecular ecologist and specialist in leaf beetles. Gender masculine.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E1432FFFAA098F2310FE5EF9D8.taxon	description	Description of adult and larva See Description of Gomezzuritus alternatus.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	description	Figs 1 A – B, 2 – 3, 4 A – E	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis The larva of Gomezzuritus alternatus is similar to that of G. longicornis reported by Kazantsev & Zaitsev (2021). It differs in the darker coloration, noticeably larger alveoles of the cuticle, and more distinct, light median membrane on abdominal tergite 9 (Fig. 3).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined SPAIN • 14 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀; Asturias, Las Agüeras, 35 km SW of Oviedo; 28 May 2022; D. Kusy, M. Motyka and L. Bocak leg.; LMBC • 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 6 larvae (various instars); Asturias, 25 km SW of Oviedo, Caranga de Abajo; 30 May 2022; D. Kusy, M. Motyka and L. Bocak leg.; LMBC • 3 ♂♂; Galicia, A Fonsagrada; 10 May 2019; A. Ocampo leg.; LMBC • 1 ♂; Cádiz, Grazalema; 10 – 17 May 1979; J. Jelinek leg.; NMPC • 1 spec.; Northern Spain, Curenco; Korb leg.; ZMBC (no exact data). PORTUGAL • 2 specs; Coimbra, Serra do Buçaco; 1924; F. Hanus leg.; NMPC • 1 spec.; Algarve, Serra de Monchique; 24 Mar. 1967; R. Constantin leg.; RCSL.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	description	Redescription Adult (male) BODY. Elongated, dorso-ventrally flattened (Fig 1 B – C). HEAD. Transverse, slightly exposed from pronotum. Eyes moderately large, spherical. Labial palps short, their ultimate palpomere widened; maxillary palps slender, their ultimate palpomere elongate, almost parallel-sided, flattened distally. ANTENNA. 11 - segmented, relatively long, slender, antennomeres only slightly flattened; pedicel (antennomere 2) subequal in length to antennomere 3 and noticeably shorter than antennomere 4 subequal and subsequent antennomeres; pubescence on antennomeres 3 – 11 short and erect (Figs 1 B – C; 2 G). PRONOTUM. Transverse, triangularly produced anteriorly, almost straight at sides, with complete oval median areole and solid transverse lateral carinae; posterior angles small, acute (Figs 1 B – C; 2 A – B). SCUTELLUM. Elongate, almost parallel-sided, triangularly emarginate at apex (Fig. 1 B). WINGS. Elytra elongate, flattened, with three distinct costae on the dorsal surface, with double rows of cells in their interstices; elytral pubescence relatively short and decumbent (Figs 1 B; 2 D). Metathoracic wings fully developed. LEGS. Slender; hind trochanters relatively short, acute at posterior angles, femora and tibiae straight, subequal in length, slightly widening distally; tarsomeres 1 – 4 slightly widened; claws simple (Fig. 2 C). ABDOMEN. With triangularly incised penultimate ventrite. Female Similar to male, but pubescence on antennomeres 3 – 11 decumbent. Larva (3 rd instar) MEASUREMENTS. Length: 12.5 mm; width (at dorsum): 2.2 mm. BODY. Elongate, sub-cylindrical, slightly tapering anteriorly and posteriorly. Sclerites light to dark brown, membranes yellowish white. Cuticle alveolate, with relatively large uniform alveoles (Fig. 3 A – K). HEAD. Strongly transverse, dorsally with semi-circular anterior margin; head capsule open ventrally; lateral sclerites not fused to cranium, but approximate anteriorly, with two anterior setae; dorsal cranial plate with pair of broadly separated setae at anterior margin, pair of large setae at disk and pair of setae at fronto-lateral corners; ventral plate broad, heart-shaped, with two anterior setae near lateral margin. Stemmata absent. ANTENNA. Located fronto-laterally, relatively small, retractable, antennomere 1 (alternatively can be designated as an antennifer) short, circular sclerite; terminal antennomere elongate, ca 1.5 × as long as wide, with relatively large apical membranous bilobed slit and two short distal setae (Fig. 3 D – F). Mandibles short, with approximate bases, relatively robust (Fig. 3 B, D – F). Galea elongate, almost attaining apex of palpomere 2, basally fused with palpiger, located, with respect to palps, intero-dorsally, with several setae. Maxillary palps three-segmented; palpiger well developed, transverse, ca 1.5 × as wide as long, subequal in length to palpomeres 1 and 2 taken together, with numerous small apical and lateral setae; palpomeres 1 and 2 of approximately equal length, but palpomere 1 noticeably wider than palpomere 2; palpomere 3 conspicuously narrower than palpomere 2 and subequal in length to palpomeres 1 and 2. Labial palps minute; prementum narrow, not divided by median suture; palps twosegmented; ligula absent (Fig. 3 B, D – F). THORAX. Thoracic terga similar to abdominal ones, with transverse sclerites divided medially into two parts by narrow membrane (Fig. 3 I). Thoracic pleura consisting of two roundish sclerites, anterior epipleurite and posterior hypopleurite; in prothorax epipleurite absent, hypopleurite semi-fused to tergum. Mesothoracic epipleurite with relatively large, annular-biforous functional spiracle; metathoracic epipleurite with minute non-functional spiracle (Fig. 3 A, C). Sternal sclerites small, heart-shaped, with two relatively short discal setae (Fig. 3 A, C). Coxa about as long as wide; trochanter prominent, about as long and half as wide as femur. Coxa, trochanter, and femur with two relatively long setae each; tibia with numerous short setae. Claws elongate, shorter than tibiae (Fig. 3 A, J). ABDOMEN. Abdominal terga 1 – 8 transverse, sub-rectangular, with rounded corners, divided medially into two parts by membrane. Tergite 9 moderately transverse, ca 1.3 × as wides as long, narrowed and rounded posteriorly, with median notch, divided medially by conspicuous light membrane, with six setae at posterior edge, two dorsally and four ventrally. Abdominal pleura consisting of two elongate sub-rectangular sclerites, larger epipleurite (more dorsal) and smaller sternopleurite (more ventral). Abdominal spiracles, present in segments 1 – 8, functional, annular-biforous, located in middle of dorsal half, far from dorsal edge of epipleurite; abdominal spiracle of segment 1 relatively large, like mesothoracic spiracle (Fig. 3 A, C). Sternites transverse, sub-rectangular, with slightly rounded corners and pair of setae at posterior margin (Fig. 3 H). Abdominal segment 10 tubular, located at ca 35 ° to axis of segment 9 (Fig. 3 A, C, H).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	distribution	Distribution Portugal, NW Spain, and the Pyrenees (France and Spain).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14328FFA60AD726F5FA0FF995.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology The species is poorly represented in major European museum collections, but it is quite common in the mountain forests of Portugal (the whole country) and western and northern Spain (Galicia, Cantabria, Asturias, Basque Country, and the Pyrenees; only a few reports are known from Castile and Leon and from Madrid province; Fig. 1 F; www. inaturalist. org [accessed 25 Jun. 2022]). Adults occur from late March to mid-June, commonly sitting on herb and fern leaves, flying in late afternoon or early evening hours or when disturbed (Fig. 4 D). We collected most specimens in old pine forests in lower mountain elevations in the Asturias province (Fig. 4 F). The larvae were collected from moist red-rotten pine wood in the place where adults were common (Fig. 4 C – D). Red-rotten wood (Fig. 4 C, E) was repeatedly found to be a preferred substrate, as for the larvae of the closely related Pyropterus nigroruber. Larvae of different ages aggregating in a group were found as has been observed in other lycids (Bocak & Matsuda 2003).	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14324FFA70ADC2620FE22FD7F.taxon	description	Fig. 1 D	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14324FFA70ADC2620FE22FD7F.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined GEORGIA • ♂ (holotype of E. longicornis); Adjaria, Batumi (no further data); MNHP • 1 ♂ (‘ Pyropterus schelkovnikovi typ. un. ’ [Barovskij’s manuscript label: “ Holotype of P. schelkovnikovi ”]); Caucasus, Distr. Gori, Bakuriani; alt. 2000 m; 20 Jul. 1912; M. Kozlovskij leg.; ZIN • 1 ♂; Abkhasia, Sukhumi, Mt. Bograt, park Vira; 3 Dec. 1931; B. Rohdendorf leg.; ICM. RUSSIA • 3 larvae; NW Caucasus, Adygeya, Guzeripl, env. Mt Filimonova; alt. 1200 m; 43.9981 ° N, 40.1695 ° E; 15 Jun. 2007; А. Zaitsev leg.; under the bark of a dead tree; ICM.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14324FFA70ADC2620FE22FD7F.taxon	discussion	Remarks The species is closely related to G. alternatus and transferred to Gomezzuritus. The earlier described larva of this species (Kazantsev & Zaitsev 2021) was collected in Northwestern Caucasus, where no other dictyopterine taxa occur. Its similarity with G. alternatus confirms the relationships of these species.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14326FFA409042152F8A3FD46.taxon	description	Fig. 1 E	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14326FFA409042152F8A3FD46.taxon	discussion	Remark Pyropterus rubripes is transferred from Pyropterus to Gomezzuritus based on morphological similarity.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
577087E14326FFA409042152F8A3FD46.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined ALGERIA • 1 ♀ (lectotype of E. rubripes); Forêt des Beni Ghorbi; Jun. 1897; MNHP. MOROCCO • 1 ♂; Rif Mts, Bab-Berret – Ketama road; alt. 1600 m; 34.933 ° N, 04.6001 ° W; 1 May 2002; J. Kalab leg.; Cedrus forest; first record from Morocco; ICM.	en	Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal, Bocak, Ladislav (2023): European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 888: 159-174, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2239
