Revisional notes on the genus Laccobius. I. Subgenus Glyptolaccobius (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)
Author
Gentili, Elio
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2006
2006-11-06
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5176694
0374-1036
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Laccobius
(
Glyptolaccobius
)
incisus
Gentili, 1989
(
Figs. 4, 17-19
)
Laccobius
(
Glyptolaccobius
)
incisus
Gentili, 1989: 36
.
Laccobius
(
Glyptolaccobius
)
incisus
:
HANSEN (1999)
: 130
;
HEBAUER (2002)
: 16
.
Type
locality.
Nepal
, Solukhumbu, Monjo,
2800 m
a.s.l.
Type material examined.
HOLOTYPE
: J, 1.9 ×
1.2 mm
(
NSMT
): ‘
Monjo
,
2800 m
/
Solukhumbu
,
NEPAL
/
Sept. 30, 1979
/
M. Sato
leg. // [red label]
Holotypus
/ E. Gentili’.
PARATYPES
: 11 JJ
10 ♀♀
(
NSMT
,
MSNV
), same data as
holotype
.
Material not examined.
NEPAL
:
‘Annapurna Mts. N of Pokhara, small river near Siklis
2200 m
, 24.04.1996, leg. O. Jäger (
MTDG
)’.
INDIA
:
‘
UTTAR PRADESH
, C. Almora, Dhabari (
NHML
)’ (all data after
HEBAUER 2002
).
Differential diagnosis.
Laccobius incisus
belongs to the group of species with unordered elytral punctures and curved hind tibiae. Within this group it resembles
L. affinis
and
L. egregius
by the dark elytral colour without clear spots and stripes. It is chiefly distinguishable from these two species by the shape of the aedeagus (
Figs. 17-19
), with inner margin of the parameres hooked before the apex. Externally, it differs from these species by the lack of shagreen and black hairs on head and pronotum and by the parasutural furrow reaching elytral apex.
Distribution.
India
(
Uttar Pradesh
),
Nepal
.