New data on the net-wing beetle genus Plateros (Coleoptera: Lycidae) from Nepal

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Three species of the genus Plateros Bourgeois, 1879—P. manaliensis (Bocáková, 1997), P. atrosuturalis Kazantsev, 2011, and P. gavryushini Kazantsev, 2017—previously known only from northern India, northern Myanmar and Indochina, respectively, are reported from Nepal for the first time. Plateros anguliplanatus Kazantsev, 2021, syn. nov. is synonymised with P. gurkha Kazantsev, 2001. Fourteen species of Plateros from Nepal—P. atrosuturalis Kazantsev, 2011, P. brancuccii Kazantsev, 1991, P. cimicoides Kleine, 1928, P. cinereus Kazantsev, 1991, P. dentifer Kazantsev, 1991, P. harmandi Bourgeois, 1928, P. karnaliensis Kazantsev, 2011, P. kumatai Nakane, 1983, P. laterculus Kazantsev, 1991, P. macrosuturalis Kazantsev, 1991, P. manaliensis (Bocáková, 1997), P. nepalensis Kazantsev, 1991, P. suturalis Pic, 1928, and P. wittmerianus Kazantsev, 1991—are illustrated with colour photographs of their habitus and aedeagi for the first time. A comprehensive list of Plateros species in Nepal is presented, now encompassing a total of 36 species.