Genus Baeocrara (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) new to Korea with an annotated world catalog

ABSTRACT The family Ptiliidae is one of the smallest and little-known beetle groups, with only two known species, Dipentium japonicum (Sawada, 1965) and Acrotrichis lewisi (Matthews, 1884), from the Korean peninsula. During the recent study of soil insects from central part of Korea, Baeocrara variolosa (Mulsant and Rey, 1861), belonging to Ptiliidae, were recorded for the first time from Korea, based on the four specimens. In this study, illustrations of a habitus, diagnostic characteristics and an annotated world catalog of the genus Baeocrara are provided.