identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
22792A90AEFF511D90DE447F3D4BD23D.text	22792A90AEFF511D90DE447F3D4BD23D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Laius Guerin-Meneville 1838	<div><p>Laius Guérin-Méneville, 1838</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Laius cyaneus Guérin-Méneville, 1838 .</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>滨囊花萤属.</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This genus can be distinguished from other Apalochrini by the following combination of characters: body black with metallic bluish or greenish lustre; antennomeres 1 and 3 dilated and modified in male, remaining segments filiform; protibiae in males enlarged and curved at the basal third, with inner surfaces concave near base; protarsi 5 - segmented in both sexes, without toothed extension.</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Apart from the morphological characters, its special habitat is also unique in Apalochrini, with both larvae and adults living on seashore rocks, feeding on animal proteins of other small invertebrates, like oysters and barnacles.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/22792A90AEFF511D90DE447F3D4BD23D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Zhenhua;Qiu, Fuwen;Li, Zhiqiang	Liu, Zhenhua, Qiu, Fuwen, Li, Zhiqiang (2026): Descriptions of two new species of the genus Laius Guérin-Méneville, 1838 (Coleoptera, Melyridae, Malachiinae) from China. ZooKeys 1283: 241-251, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1283.184622
4143DD66BE0255F38452DCDADCAF5339.text	4143DD66BE0255F38452DCDADCAF5339.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Laius simingensis Liu & Qiu & Li 2026	<div><p>Laius simingensis sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1 A – C, 2 A – C, 2 G, 2 I, 3 A – E, 4 D</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>思明滨囊花萤.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype: • male, “ CHINA. Fujian, Xiamen, Siming District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.19713&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.49273" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.19713/lat 24.49273)">Guanyinshan beach</a>, E 118.197125 N 24.492729, 2025. vi. 21–22, leg. Zhenhua Liu ” (IZGAS) . Paratypes: • 8 males, 18 females, same data as the holotype (IZGAS); • 10 males, 8 females, “ CHINA. Fujian, Xiamen, Siming District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.112625&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.429981" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.112625/lat 24.429981)">Zhenzhuwan beach</a>, E 118.112624 N 24.429981, 2025. vi. 21–22, leg. Zhenhua Liu ” (IZGAS) ; • 1 male, 2 females, “ CHINA. Fujian, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.33865&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.404997" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.33865/lat 24.404997)">Quanzhou</a>, Jinmen County, E 118.338654 N 24.404996, 2025. vi. 21, leg. Yuchen Zheng ” (IZGAS) .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species belongs to species group 3 of Yoshitomi (2014), with a long gonoporal piece and a short and curved ligula (Fig. 3 C). It mostly resembles L. miyamotoi in colouration and shape of basal antennomeres (Nakane 1955), with the inner side of scape darkish, antennomere 3 with a large concavity at its base and a small, rounded concavity near its apex. However, L. simingensis can be separated from L. miyamotoi by the longer ligula, with the gonoporal piece about 3.3 times as long as the ligula (Fig. 3 C), which is 4.9 times as long in L. miyamotoi (Yoshitomi 2014: fig. 4 F), and by the shape of antennomere 3 (Fig. 2 A – C), which is about 1.1 times as long as wide (length and width about equal in L. miyamotoi; Nakane 1955: fig. 1).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Length 3.9–4.4 mm.</p><p>Male. Body black, head and pronotum with metallic greenish lustre; elytra with metallic bluish lustre; antennae with basal three segments orange; base of scape dark. Vestiture of dense, short pubescence.</p><p>Head with dorsal surface densely, finely punctured; frons with short, longitudinal groove; genae slightly constricted and smoother; frons covered with silver setae, longer in front of eyes. Eyes moderate in size and finely faceted, laterally protruding, with interfacetal setae. Antennae laterally inserted on frons, with insertions exposed from above. Antennae 11 - segmented; antennomeres 4–10 semi-moniliform; antennomere 11 fusiform; scape elongated, subtriangular, with outer edge curved at base; antennomere 3 dilated and subtrapezoid anddorsal surface with small, rounded subapical depression and large concavity at base, bearing large membranous appendage on inner edge; anterior edge of basal concavity distinctly raised.</p><p>Pronotum about 0.8 times as long as wide; lateral margins slightly curved, with complete lateral carina; disc densely, finely punctured. Prosternum short; procoxal cavities large, transverse, contiguous at middle, widely opening to posterior. Scutellum transversely trapezoid, with posterior margin nearly truncate.</p><p>Elytra about 1.5 times as long as wide; lateral margins nearly parallel-sided; apex roundly detached; surfaces smooth, without distinct punctation; epipleura not extend to posterior margin of metaventrite. Metaventrite slightly dilated; metanepisternum broad. Procoxae and mesocoxae enlarged, protruding; trochanters large, subtriangular. Protibiae strongly enlarged and curved at base, with large concavity on inner edge, forming interlock structure with inner edge of profemora; meso- and metafemora slightly dilated; tibiae slender; tarsomeres 1–4 short and subequal in length; tarsomere 5 longest.</p><p>Abdomen with six freely articulated ventrites, nearly membranous; ventrite 1 divided at middle; last ventrite subtriangular. Tergite VIII subtrapezoid, anterolaterally with pair of short struts; posterior margin emarginate, covered with long, sparse setae along lateral and posterior edge; sternites VIII transverse, nearly divided at middle, covered with sparse, long setae along posterior edge. Specular gastrum sheath-shaped, broad. Aedeagus with penis constricted at middle, with apex slightly constricted and apical margin emarginate; endophallus with slender gonoporal piece and strongly curved, short ligula.</p><p>Female. Similar to male in shape and colouration, but with basal three antennomeres darker; scape and antennomere 3 only slightly dilated and elongated; profemora and protibiae simple, without concavity or tubercle along inner edges.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species name refers to the Siming District of Xiamen, where the type series were collected.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Fujian (Xiamen, Quanzhou).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4143DD66BE0255F38452DCDADCAF5339	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Zhenhua;Qiu, Fuwen;Li, Zhiqiang	Liu, Zhenhua, Qiu, Fuwen, Li, Zhiqiang (2026): Descriptions of two new species of the genus Laius Guérin-Méneville, 1838 (Coleoptera, Melyridae, Malachiinae) from China. ZooKeys 1283: 241-251, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1283.184622
A4BCEC1A32C75A1D9C59556ED734F88A.text	A4BCEC1A32C75A1D9C59556ED734F88A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Laius xiamenensis Liu & Qiu & Li 2026	<div><p>Laius xiamenensis sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1 D – F, 2 D – F, 2 H, 2 J, 3 F – J, 4 B</p><p>Chinese common name.</p><p>厦门滨囊花萤.</p><p>Type material.</p><p>Holotype: • male, “ CHINA. Fujian, Xiamen, Siming District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.112625&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.429981" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.112625/lat 24.429981)">Zhenzhuwan beach</a>, E 118.112624 N 24.429981, 2025. vi. 7, leg. Zhou Qing ” (IZGAS) . Paratypes: • 1 female same data with the holotype (IZGAS); • 7 males, 14 females, “ CHINA. Fujian, Xiamen, Siming District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.112625&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.429981" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.112625/lat 24.429981)">Zhenzhuwan beach</a>, E 118.112624 N 24.429981, 2025. vi. 221–21, leg. Zhenhua Liu ” (IZGAS) ; • 2 females, “ CHINA Fujian, Xiamen, Siming District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.19713&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.49273" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.19713/lat 24.49273)">Guanyinshan beach</a>, E 118.197125 N 24.492729, 2025. vi. 221–21, leg. Zhenhua Liu ” (IZGAS) ; • 2 females, “ CHINA, Fujian, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=118.33865&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.404997" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 118.33865/lat 24.404997)">Quanzhou</a>, Jinmen County, E 118.338654 N 24.404996, 2025. vi. 21, leg. Yuchen Zheng ” (IZGAS) .</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>This species belongs to species group 2 of Yoshitomi (2014) based on having the sclerites in the endophallus and the gonoporal piece with a basal projection (Fig. 3 H). It resembles L. flavicornis, L. lutaoensis, and L. zappii Plonski, 2020 in colouration, the shape of the basal antennomeres and the following characters: scape long, strongly curved, and with tuft of long setae on outer side of apex, and antennomere 3 transverse and dorsal side with large excavation near inner edge (Yoshitomi 2008; Yoshitomi and Lee 2010; Plonski 2020). It can be separated from those species by the straighter ligula in the endophallus (Fig. 3 H) and by the more acute outer margin of antennomere 3 (Fig. 2 D, F).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Length 4.1–4.8 mm.</p><p>Male. Body black, with metallic bluish lustre; antennomeres 1–3, anterior edges of genae, tarsi, and basal parts of mouthparts orange; antennomere 4 orange to brownish. Vestiture of dense, short pubescence.</p><p>Head with dorsal surface densely, finely punctured; frons with small medial pit; genae moderately constricted; frons covered with silver setae, denser and longer on genae in front of eyes. Eyes moderate in size, finely faceted, laterally protruding, with interfacetal setae. Antennae laterally inserted on frons, with insertions exposed from above. Antennae 11 - segmented; antennomeres 4–11 filiform; antennomere 11 fusiform; scape elongated, laterally flattened and twisted, with apex thickened, bearing tuft of golden setae; antennomere 3 dilated, transverse, with outer margin narrowly rounded, inner margin arcuate, dorsal surface with smaller elliptical depression near apex, and larger, deep concavity at base near inner edge, laterally bearing large membranous appendage, and anterior and inner edges of basal concavity distinctly raised.</p><p>Pronotum about 0.7 times as long as wide; lateral margins slightly arcuate, with complete lateral carina; disc densely, finely punctured. Prosternum short; procoxal cavities large and transverse, contiguous at middle, widely opening to posterior. Scutellum transversely trapezoid, with posterior margin nearly truncate.</p><p>Elytra about 1.5 times as long as wide, with lateral margins nearly parallel-sided, widest at about apical fourth, apex roundly detached; surfaces smooth, without distinct punctation; epipleura not extending to posterior margin of metaventrite. Metaventrite slightly dilated; metanepisternum broad. Procoxae and mesocoxae enlarged and protruding; trochanters large and subtriangular. Protibiae strongly enlarged and moderately curved at base, with large, longitudinal concavity on inner edge, forming interlock structure with inner edge of profemora; meso- and metafemora slightly dilated, tibiae slender; tarsomeres 1–4 short and subequal in length; tarsomere 5 longest; protarsi shorter than others.</p><p>Abdomen with six freely articulated ventrites, nearly membranous; ventrite 1 divided at middle, last ventrite subtriangular. Tergite VIII subtrapezoid, with pair of short struts anterolaterally, posterior margin emarginate, covered with long, sparse setae along lateral and posterior edges; sternites VIII transverse, nearly divided at middle, coved with long, sparse setae along posterior edge. Specular gastrum sheath-shaped. Aedeagus with penis slightly constricted near base; apex slightly constricted; apical margin emarginate; endophallus with slender gonoporal piece and slightly curved ligula; gonoporal piece with small basal projection.</p><p>Female. Similar in shape and colouration to male, but with scape and antennomere 3 only slightly dilated and elongated; front femora and tibiae simple, without concavity or tubercle on inner edges.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>Species name refers to the type locality of the new species, Xiamen, a city of Fujian province.</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Fujian (Xiamen, Quanzhou).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A4BCEC1A32C75A1D9C59556ED734F88A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Liu, Zhenhua;Qiu, Fuwen;Li, Zhiqiang	Liu, Zhenhua, Qiu, Fuwen, Li, Zhiqiang (2026): Descriptions of two new species of the genus Laius Guérin-Méneville, 1838 (Coleoptera, Melyridae, Malachiinae) from China. ZooKeys 1283: 241-251, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1283.184622
