Review of the Taiwanese Laccobius Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) with description of a new species
Author
Liu, Hsing-Che
Taiwanese Society of Insect Natural History, No. 8, Wufeng Rd., Hsinchu County 310, Taiwan.
Author
Fikáček, Martin
0000-0002-2078-6798
Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, No. 70 Lien-hai Rd., Kaohsiung City 80424, Taiwan. & Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 19100 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic. & Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ- 12844 Praha 2, Czech Republic. mfikacek @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2078 - 6798
mfikacek@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-20
4963
3
587
599
journal article
7088
10.11646/zootaxa.4963.3.11
37bbbcdd-7455-4fd2-854c-49f010b3b27c
1175-5326
4704278
05C2E47F-426D-42EF-B07E-D586C63B6527
Genus
Laccobius
Erichson, 1837
Laccobius
Erichson, 1837: 202
.
Five species of this genus were previously recorded from
Taiwan
(
Przewoźny 2020
). One additional undescribed species has been found in the material under study, and one species (
L. philipinus
) is removed from Taiwanese fauna. Taiwanese species inhabit aquatic habitats, including pools, muddy shores of rivers or stream and wet rocks.