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<paragraph id="859B3D8DB11072D5C164D84B960A77DD" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName id="3F58EF24B63708BC4FCC17C5BE859ECB" ID-CoL="3RM94" authority="Linnaeus, 1758" authorityName="Linnaeus" authorityYear="1758" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus (Linnaeus, 1758)</taxonomicName>
Figs 27-28, 226, 388, 529
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minutus
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<bibRefCitation id="26C4773DA8D00A80E8A1DD362A70E88E" author="Linnaeus, C" journalOrPublisher="laurentii Salvii, Stockholm" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" title="Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata" year="1758">Linnaeus 1758</bibRefCitation>
: 412 (original description, faunistics).
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<taxonomicName id="558C5A5687D8C3852B8FCADFD1E45D36" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus</taxonomicName>
(Linnaeus),
<bibRefCitation id="EE41A52D813FD404248122FCF08C0EEA" author="Leach, WE" editor="Brewster, D" journalOrPublisher="Baldwin, Edinburgh" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" pagination="57 - 172" title="Entomology." volumeTitle="The Edinburgh encyclopaedia" year="1815">Leach 1815</bibRefCitation>
: 673 (description, biology);
<bibRefCitation id="64A665EE37E61B1907F55CB84F1A0F52" author="Aube, C" editor="Dejean, PFMA" journalOrPublisher="Mequignon Pere et fils, Paris" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" title="Species general des coleopteres de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean" year="1838">
<normalizedToken id="2B9B3485DA60A401303C666429402A84" originalValue="Aubé">Aube</normalizedToken>
1838
</bibRefCitation>
: 417 (description, faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="247B9A6CDDE036C15FE9EF237912C12E" author="Lucas, H" journalOrPublisher="Bertrand, Paris" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" title="Histoire naturelle des animaux articules. Deuxieme partie. Insectes. In: Exploration scientifique de l'Algerie pendant les annees 1840, 1841, 1842 publiee par ordre du Gouvernement et avec le concours dune Commission Academique. Sciences physiques, Zoologie. Vol. 2. A." year="1846 - 1849">Lucas 1846</bibRefCitation>
: 94 (faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="1ACEAFFE4370CD4468D9D2CEB847ABD9" author="Reiche, L" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe Linneenne de Normandie" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="1 - 44" title="Catalogue des coleopteres de l'Algerie et contrees voisines avec descriptions d'especes nouvelles." volume="15" year="1872">Reiche 1872</bibRefCitation>
: 23 (faunistics, list);
<bibRefCitation id="683580EA17A66E600F20EBF584E02DF1" author="Regimbart, M" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de la Societe entomologique de Belgique" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="1 - 244" title="Revision des Dytiscidae et Gyrinidae d'Afrique, Madagascar et iles voisines. En contribution a la faune entomologique du Congo." volume="4" year="1895">
<normalizedToken id="1DD96BA1D967152D3463B6300FF3136A" originalValue="Régimbart">Regimbart</normalizedToken>
1895
</bibRefCitation>
: 132 (faunistics; given as
<taxonomicName id="7446FEAD6989FB87EB9CFB0018481571" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus obscurus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obscurus">Laccophilus obscurus</taxonomicName>
Panzer, junior synonym of
<taxonomicName id="024FFF7055D8D27A0E2D0E40076960AF" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus</taxonomicName>
);
<bibRefCitation id="A85CAF7DE369F0665FB02A04C60D8145" author="Zimmermann, A" journalOrPublisher="Junk, Berlin" pageId="263" pageNumber="264" title="Dytiscidae, Haliplidae, Hygrobiidae, Amphizoidae. In: Schenkling S (Ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 4 pars 71. W." year="1920 a">Zimmermann 1920a</bibRefCitation>
: 21 (catalogue);
<bibRefCitation id="FACF63BD860C65F189F48FCF4F1AF0A8" author="Bertrand, H" journalOrPublisher="Encyclopedie Entomologique 10, Paris" pageId="253" pageNumber="254" title="Les larves et nymphes des dytiscides, hygrobiides et haliplides." year="1928 b">Bertrand 1928b</bibRefCitation>
: 274 (juvenile description);
<bibRefCitation id="DB8CEC7F41392B79E7812140B446B07F" author="Zimmermann, A" journalOrPublisher="Troppau" pageId="263" pageNumber="264" pagination="35 - 118" title="Monographie der palaearktischen Dytiscidae. I. Noterinae, Laccophilinae, Hydroporinae (1. Teil)." volumeTitle="Koleopterologische Rundschau" year="1930">Zimmermann 1930</bibRefCitation>
: 14 (description, faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="9F9BDD367B9CE307F52A62068389E817" author="Lindberg, Hakan" journalOrPublisher="Commentationes Biologicae" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 35" title="Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Hakan Lindberg. XXIII. In: Spanien und Marokko gefundene ColeopteraAdephaga." volume="7" year="1939">Lindberg 1939</bibRefCitation>
: 11, 13, 29 (biology, faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="F17F95DEC3D15FFD33E3CF190B7EADC5" author="Brinck, P" journalOrPublisher="Norsk Entomologisk Tidskrift" pageId="255" pageNumber="256" pagination="154 - 161" title="Insecta, ex Sibiria meridionali et Mongolia in itinere Oerjan Olsen 1914 collecta. A. Coleoptera, a Fritz Jensen lecta. VIII. Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae." volume="6" year="1943">Brinck 1943</bibRefCitation>
: 154 (faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="050BCB029BA58CD275412873DFF4CFF3" author="Balfour-Browne, J" journalOrPublisher="16. Birtish Museum (Natural History) Expedition to South-West Arabia 1937 - 1938" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" pagination="179 - 220" title="Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydraenidae, Hydrophilidae." volume="1" year="1951">Balfour-Browne 1951</bibRefCitation>
: 193 (discussion);
<bibRefCitation id="A7C54E71D52A68B1830ADDFCD6C640A6" author="Sanfilippo, N" journalOrPublisher="Annuario dell'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia della Universita di Napoli" pageId="262" pageNumber="263" pagination="1 - 4" title="Richerche zoologiche sul Massiccio del Pollino (Lucania-Calabria). 17. Coleoptera. - 7. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae." volume="7" year="1955">Sanfilippo 1955</bibRefCitation>
: 1 (faunistics, biology);
<bibRefCitation id="7AE6ADA49E9D02210ED9D4B03A11A873" author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Memoires de l'Institut Francais d'Afrique Noire" pageId="258" pageNumber="259" pagination="211 - 223" title="Coleopteres hydrocanthares. Le Parc National du Niokolo-Koba. 13." volume="48" year="1956 b">Guignot 1956b</bibRefCitation>
: 220 (discussion);
<bibRefCitation id="E3E97ADA9A28938E16DBF8F32CBBE5EB" author="Guignot, F" journalOrPublisher="Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge (Serie 8 vo) Sciences Zoologiques" pageId="258" pageNumber="259" pagination="323 - 648" title="Revision des hydrocanthares d'Afrique (ColeopteraDytiscoidea). 2." volume="78" year="1959 a">Guignot 1959a</bibRefCitation>
: 579, 583 (redescription, faunistics); Angelini 1982: 82 (faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="80AD55EB9E7026D22C9C531C7E4B7E7C" author="El Alaoui, A" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin de l'Institut Scientifique, Rabat" pageId="252" pageNumber="253" pagination="127 - 142" title="Contribution a l'etude des coleopteres Hydrocanthares de la zone littorale entre Kenitra et Mohamedia." volume="7" year="1983">El Alaoui 1983</bibRefCitation>
: 133, 135 (faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="2C2E09C9FCF964AF4AE993346B1E45C3" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="World catalogue of Insects" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="1 - 395" title="Dytiscidae." volume="3" year="2001">Nilsson 2001</bibRefCitation>
: 247 (catalogue, faunistics);
<bibRefCitation id="E0D153BC6B60753B27C448E605E3C053" author="Nilsson, AN" editor="Loebl, I" journalOrPublisher="Apollo books, Stenstrup" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" pagination="35 - 78" title="Dytiscidae." volumeTitle="Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 1. Archostemata-Myxophaga-Adephaga" year="2003">Nilsson 2003</bibRefCitation>
: 76 (faunistics, list);
<bibRefCitation id="05462949EC6A16402F6F3CAA477406F0" author="Bennas, N" journalOrPublisher="Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana" pageId="253" pageNumber="254" pagination="31 - 73" title="Coleopteres aquatiques Adephaga de la chaine rifaine marocaine (ColeopteraGyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Hygrobiidae, Dytiscidae)." url="10.4081/memorieSEI.2006.31" volume="85" year="2006">
Bennas and
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2006
</bibRefCitation>
: 59, 62 (faunistics, list);
<bibRefCitation id="F0F591DA55E04C94958A9F1902042F40" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="Apollo books, Stenstrup" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" title="A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Version 1. I. 2015" url="http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/" year="2015">Nilsson 2015</bibRefCitation>
: 214 (catalogue, faunistics). [Comments: Only references referring to Africa are listed. The list of synonyms and references is accordingly, not complete. We refer to World catalogue of
<bibRefCitation id="B50E6909504655622946037F34997EEC" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="Apollo books, Stenstrup" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" title="A World Catalogue of the Family Dytiscidae, or the Diving Beetles (Coleoptera, Adephaga). Version 1. I. 2015" url="http://www2.emg.umu.se/projects/biginst/andersn/" year="2015">Nilsson (2015)</bibRefCitation>
]
</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EA47C9A832ADBC1816E462A79D5EBF14" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Type locality.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B3F9222734544CE57DCD415869D32D90" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Europe.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C95138FB9E6E88327A533D6874227ED7" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" type="type material">
<paragraph id="12060055C8BE4476CE1DCC145966F397" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Type material</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DDE4FB5BB2610F36282D67E4976D62D8" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
(not examined):
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. Type specimen deposited in The Linnean Collections, London, UK (item data: LINN 6347
<taxonomicName id="F9E2A9638254E9FD3AA5E5A82E818250" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Dytiscus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Dytiscus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Dytiscus minutus</taxonomicName>
(Ins. Linn.), www.linnean.org).
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<paragraph id="FC32F296C9D0D6C1880EBFF5D625D938" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">African material studied</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C07080F8A2D2EEC0FB12CB5CE0B93F85" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
(49 exs.). Morocco: &quot;Tanger 25-29.4. 1926 Lindberg&quot; (6 exs. MZH); &quot;Tiflet-Oulmes 18.3.1961 Lindberg-Meinander&quot; (4 exs. MZH; habitus in Fig. 388); &quot;Sp. Mor., at Tangier border 8.7.1955&quot; (1 ex. USNM); &quot;Rabat 3-4.5. 1926 Lindberg&quot; (2 exs. MZH); &quot;Gharb 7.7. 1926 Lindberg&quot; (11 exs. MZH); &quot;Marrakesch 21-23.5. 1926 Lindberg&quot; (6 exs. MZH); &quot;Dayet Jerans (lake) 11 km E.N.E. Ifrane 5400 ft. 28.5. 1961 / P.N. Lawrence&quot; (1 ex. BMNH); &quot;Middle Atlas, nr Ifrane 28.5. 1961 Dayet Jerane P.N. Lawrence&quot; (1 ex. BMNH, 1 ex. MZH); &quot;Oued Zad 65 km S Ifrane 21.5. 1961 / P. N. Lawrence / Tiny pond, flooded grass&quot; (1 ex. BMNH); &quot;Fr. Mor., Petit Jean 9.7. 1955 D.L. Lauck&quot; (6 exs. USNM, 2 exs. MZH); &quot;Sp. Mor., El Kaar, El Kebir 8.7.1955 D.R. Lauck&quot; (2 exs. USNM). - Algeria: &quot;Bouqie 17.7. 1955 D.R. Lauck&quot; (1 ex. USNM). - Tunisia: &quot;Tunis J. Sahlb.&quot; (1 ex. MZH); &quot;Tunisien 2.9. 1991 5 km W Utique
<normalizedToken id="205BBF75B42B834B7EB3AA9A2EF5D708" originalValue="Schödl”">Schoedl&quot;</normalizedToken>
(1 ex. NMW); &quot;Tunisien 3.8. 1991, 22 km N Jendouba
<normalizedToken id="A13BB2C00FEDCC3B796A71CA9F987334" originalValue="Schödl”">Schoedl&quot;</normalizedToken>
(1 ex. NMW). - Libya: &quot;Libya bor. or. 495 m a.s.l. prov. Al Jabal Al Akhdar, 5 km SW Al Bayda 18.5.2002 /
<geoCoordinate id="52B40E11D3FFEF170B6C37CB6B3821D1" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="32.728306">32°43'41.9&quot;N</geoCoordinate>
,
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, Reiter A. lgt.&quot; (1 ex. NMPC). [Comment: Only material collected from Africa is listed.]
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<paragraph id="74FD5A7E816273FEA803DD8BC76AA612" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="979FE13AA3A2E9F8C6ADA3640104A729" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">
<taxonomicName id="29A8A860374F68DCB9153CD9D752397A" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus</taxonomicName>
resembles most of
<taxonomicName id="B15935196AF210C75B4CCF83045C4DCF" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus mateui" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mateui">Laccophilus mateui</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="C0C1097D7DFFD83A80EDFE2237D2F8AC" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus sordidus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sordidus">Laccophilus sordidus</taxonomicName>
, both species also lacking stridulation apparatus on metacoxal plates.
<taxonomicName id="6357B3419C92C925D803A94A46BBDDA4" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus</taxonomicName>
is separated from the two close species by having smaller body and more delicate and slender penis (Figs 226, 227, 228).
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C10AAC77C9226EF6AA2798F84E0A306C" lastPageId="26" lastPageNumber="27" pageId="25" pageNumber="26" type="description">
<paragraph id="0589D042FC0C1BF2B989C729E58649FD" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="2D005E29D5B58B09B07C7CBF5BDD0173" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Body length 4.0-4.6 mm, width 2.2-2.5 mm. Dorsal, aspect of body without distinct colour pattern. On elytra vague, slightly darker areas may sometimes be discerned (Fig. 388).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0CC21DCDDE7A3A9D5261705F93CB1554" pageId="25" pageNumber="26">Head: Pale ferrugineous. Slightly mat to rather shiny, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double. Large meshes slightly more strongly developed than fine meshes. Large meshes may contain 3-6 small meshes. Impunctate, except at inner eye-margin, with an irregular row of punctures. Additionally close to eyes with a vertically located row of a few punctures.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="033F0F52CE57D68B146C59AA854D08ED" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
<pageBreakToken id="13ADA4A161C326DDF17757B9E34B99DC" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" start="start">Pronotum</pageBreakToken>
: Pale ferrugineous; lacks distinct colour pattern. Impunctate, except at frontal and lateral margins, where fine and sparse, irregular punctures are discernible. Rather shiny to submat, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double. Large meshes a little more strongly developed than small meshes; may contain 3-6 small meshes. Pronotum base posteriorly in middle produced backwards.
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<paragraph id="8D5402585F5F4D7127F521C3B88FEF0F" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Elytra: Pale ferrugineous, without distinct colour pattern. Sometimes elytra with some vague, irregular, slightly darker areas (Fig. 388). Almost impunctate. Discally with sparse, fine and scattered punctures forming a vague row. Additionally, some scattered, fine punctures may be discerned at location of dorsolateral and lateral rows. Pre-apical, lateral row of punctures form a fine furrow, provided with fine hairs. Rather shiny, although finely microsculptured. Reticulation double. Large meshes a little more strongly developed; may contain 3-6 smaller meshes.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4B5F9D6CAB7FF78E8EF2F6FC7918C637" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Ventral aspect: Pale ferrugineous to ferrugineous, without distinct colour pattern. Almost impunctate, Abdomen apically with some fine punctures. Rather shiny, very finely and in part indistinctly microsculptured. Ventrites with fine, slightly curved striae. Metacoxal plates with about 10 fine, shallow, transversely located furrows. No stridulatory apparatus. Apical ventrite almost symmetric, lacks lateral knob; finely striated, with distinct lateral impressions (Fig. 27). Prosternal process rather slender; posteriorly, moderately extended, apex pointed.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DA4ACA83867F68756F2782AC44B624B0" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Legs: Pale ferrugineous to ferrugineous. Pro- and mesotarsus somewhat enlarged, provided with suckers.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="0FE413FE52F181E00D28296C580950DC" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
Male genitalia: Aedeagus almost as in
<taxonomicName id="E2DF6BBE809E2F79519E74A9E8C618F3" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus mateui" order="Coleoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="mateui">Laccophilus mateui</taxonomicName>
but more delicate in lateral aspect (Fig. 226).
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<paragraph id="53D39C1E1767924F64E78A83E040581C" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Female: Pro- and mesotarsus slender. Apical ventrite lacks distinct lateral impressions; impressions reduced to fine lines (Fig. 28).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="76CB761CE3AC065E845C575A92247E71" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="37BCDE93FF6B33B3D2CF29F963890F59" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D035AE77C5276D9418E1EB1AF3313E6F" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Fig. 529).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="37E8EE2E14D3781AEB29CA4E2031537D" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" type="collecting circumstances">
<paragraph id="CCD8D8EA796D3F4997150F1CD4DC10ED" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">Collecting circumstances.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B024B8C33878BE1742DAA54AA1FFD4AD" pageId="26" pageNumber="27">
According to
<bibRefCitation id="2463307D683FFA6B2D779963E77AF886" author="Nilsson, AN" journalOrPublisher="E. J. Brill, Leiden" pageId="260" pageNumber="261" title="The Aquatic Adephaga (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica" year="1995">Nilsson and Holmen (1995)</bibRefCitation>
, probably focusing from Nordic perspective, main habitat is permanent water body as lakes and ponds with stagnant water. Vegetation of water body is sparse or absent.
<bibRefCitation id="7A92C80369F83B0D3BD4FA6E871F36E5" author="Lindberg, Hakan" journalOrPublisher="Commentationes Biologicae" pageId="259" pageNumber="260" pagination="1 - 35" title="Inventa entomologica itineris Hispanici et Maroccani, quod a. 1926 fecerunt Harald et Hakan Lindberg. XXIII. In: Spanien und Marokko gefundene ColeopteraAdephaga." volume="7" year="1939">Lindberg (1939)</bibRefCitation>
briefly described some sampling sites of
<taxonomicName id="5A98D09A64AFDC8E3FEAD5D35EF3191F" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus minutus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="26" pageNumber="27" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minutus">Laccophilus minutus</taxonomicName>
in Morocco. The species was collected both in standing and running waters. Collected also from an almost dried up river-bed with rich vegetation. Adults are capable of flight.
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