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A new species of Scaphobaeocera Csiki, 1909 from Yunnan, China, S. setosa sp. nov., is described. It is unique in having strongly enlarged male protarsomeres with long oblique setae, forming a fan-like structure. The new species may be also readily distinguished from its congeners by its large body size. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Members of the scaphidiine tribe Scaphisomatini collected recently in Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve (Zhejiang) and Wuyishan National Nature Reserve (part of Wuyishan Biosphere Reserve, Fujian), China, are studied. Two species, Scaphisoma krali Löbl, sp. nov. and Scaphisoma sekerkai Löbl, sp. nov., are described from Wuyishan. Baeocera franzi (Löbl, 1973) and Scaphisoma mutator Löbl, 2000 are recorded for the first time from Zhejiang province, and Scaphisoma binhanum (Pic, 1922) and Scaphoxium intermedium Löbl, 1984 are recorded for the first time from Fujian province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two new species of the genus Scaphidium Olivier, 1790 are described from China: S. yinziweii sp. nov. from Yunnan Province and S. bituberculatum sp. nov. from Hainan Province, and their diagnostic characters are illustrated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes Scaphidium direptum, a new species from Fujian and Guangdong Provinces of China and illustrates its diagnostic characters. The specimens were collected by hand from decayed wood and fungi and killed with ethyl acetate. Both male and female had a body of light reddish brown with a little darker metasternum and the male sexual characters is described as metasternite impressed medially. Its unique color pattern makes the new species easily distinguished by other Scaphidium species except for S. vernicatum and S. perpulchrum.