The Lycocerus kiontochananus species complex is revised; L. perroudi (Pic, 1937) stat. rev., originally in Cantharis, is resurrected from synonymy with L. kiontochananus (Pic, 1921); L. atropygidialis (Pic, 1937) stat. nov., originally in Cantharis, is upgraded from Cantharis perroudi var. atropygidialis Pic, 1937 and resurrected from synonymy with L. kiontochananus; L. kejvali Švihla, 2004 syn...

Malthinus mucoreus Kiesenwetter, 1879, is redescribed based on material collected from various localities in Japan, and variations in morphological features are investigated. Additionally, two species from the Ryukyus in the southwestern part of Japan, M. serrulatus sp. nov. and M. orbiculatus sp. nov., are described and illustrated.

The diagnosis of the Stenothemus harmandi species-group is summarized, and all species are reviewed and keyed. S. harmandi (Bourgeois, 1902) is redescribed and six new species are described, S. fugongensis sp. nov. (CHINA: Yunnan), S. distortirudis sp. nov. (CHINA: Xizang), S. parallelus sp. nov. (CHINA: Xizang), S. septimus sp. nov. (CHINA: Xizang), S. leishanensis sp. nov. (CHINA: Guizhou) an...

In his long career, Maurice Pic (1866–1957), a prolific French entomologist, described many thousands of insect species, subspecies, and varieties, as well as several hundreds, if not more than a thousand, of new genera across orders and families (Villiers 1958a, b). The majority of Pic’s described taxa are beetles, especially in Tenebrionoidea and the former Malacodermata (or Malacodermatidae)...