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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.542.5975" ID-GBIF-Dataset="b53aa92a-b9ac-43bd-a9b9-f468d62f0bdc" ID-PMC="PMC4714360" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-542-1" ID-PubMed="26798285" ID-ZBK="026407877355425BAB10BF1674510F12" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2015" ModsDocID="1313-2970-542-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 542" ModsDocTitle="Taxonomic revision of Afrotropical Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)" checkinTime="1451243652205" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Bistroem, Olof, Nilsson, Anders N. & Bergsten, Johannes" docDate="2015" docId="31D172605E4B1FEFBAD569BBE643FD26" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 542: 1-379" docOrigin="ZooKeys 542" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.542.5975" docTitle="Laccophilus brancuccii Bistroem, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="0F88BD88-DA0A-4396-8621-84F4244DEF21" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="212" masterDocId="E3118410B56DFF839B32FF89FFCCFFB0" masterDocTitle="Taxonomic revision of Afrotropical Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)" masterLastPageNumber="379" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="211" updateTime="1668162284477" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>Taxonomic revision of Afrotropical Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Bistroem, Olof</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Nilsson, Anders N.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Bergsten, Johannes</mods:namePart>
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<mods:date>2015</mods:date>
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<mods:number>542</mods:number>
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<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.542.5975</mods:url>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="127862769" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0F88BD88-DA0A-4396-8621-84F4244DEF21" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/31D172605E4B1FEFBAD569BBE643FD26" lastPageId="211" lastPageNumber="212" pageId="210" pageNumber="211">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="210" pageNumber="211" type="nomenclature">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/0F88BD88-DA0A-4396-8621-84F4244DEF21" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus brancuccii" order="Coleoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brancuccii">Laccophilus brancuccii</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="210" pageNumber="211">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 170, 352, 499, 567
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<subSubSection pageId="210" pageNumber="211" type="type locality">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Central African Republic: Bozo.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="210" pageNumber="211" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Type material</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">(1 ex.). Holotype, male: "Bozo (lum.) XI. 1981 / R. Centr. Afr. N. Degallier" (NHMB; habitus in Fig. 499).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="210" pageNumber="211" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus brancuccii" order="Coleoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brancuccii">Laccophilus brancuccii</taxonomicName>
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resembles most of dark specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus contiro" order="Coleoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="contiro">Laccophilus contiro</taxonomicName>
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but it is separated externally from this species by smaller body. Moreover, distinct differences in shape of penis apex separate the two species; penis of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus contiro" order="Coleoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="contiro">Laccophilus contiro</taxonomicName>
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is almost straight and almost evenly broad while penis of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus brancuccii" order="Coleoptera" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="brancuccii">Laccophilus brancuccii</taxonomicName>
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is slightly curved and medially slightly expanded.
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<subSubSection lastPageId="211" lastPageNumber="212" pageId="210" pageNumber="211" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Body length 3.5 mm, width 2.0 mm. Dorsal, colour pattern of body distinct (Fig. 499).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Head: Pale ferrugineous; at pronotum head slightly darker but change to darker colour is gradual. Submat, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double. Larger meshes only slightly more strongly developed than small meshes. Large meshes contain 3-5 small meshes. Impunctate, except at eyes, with fine, irregular punctures, the area of which extends for a short distance towards middle of head-disc.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="210" pageNumber="211">Pronotum: Pale ferrugineous, at base and frontally in middle with a fairly broad blackish to dark ferrugineous marking. Submat, finely and densely microsculptured. Large meshes somewhat more strongly developed than fine meshes; large meshes contain 2-5 fine meshes. Impunctate, except frontally and laterally; with very fine to fine, irregular punctures.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="211" pageNumber="212" start="start">Elytra</pageBreakToken>
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: Blackish ferrugineous with rather limited pale ferrugineous colour pattern; humeral region with 2-3 small, pale spots, Posterior to middle with an irregular, transverse, pale marking, interrupted narrowly at suture. Apically, with some irregular, rather small, pale spots (Fig. 499). Submat, finely and densely microsculptured; reticulation double but large meshes strongly reduced and only rudiments discernible, in part large meshes absent. Impunctate, except for a discal row, the punctures of which are fine and irregularly distributed. Outside discal row, a dorsolateral and a lateral row are indicated by a few, fine punctures.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Preapical–lateral">Preapical-lateral</normalizedToken>
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row of punctures finely pubescent.
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Ventral aspect: Blackish to dark ferrugineous, prothorax paler. Rather shiny although in part very finely microsculptured. Basal ventrites with fine, curved striae. Impunctate, except for some fine punctures apically on abdomen. Apical ventrite broken (one lateral part is lost), as in Fig. 170. Metacoxal plates with very fine, shallow, in part indistinct, transverse furrows. Apex of prosternal process broken.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Legs: Pale ferrugineous to ferrugineous. Pro- and mesotarsus somewhat enlarged, with suckers.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Male genitalia: Penis in lateral aspect quite broad, from base to middle almost straight, medially bent and slightly enlarged. Extreme apex broad, weakly pronounced (Fig. 352).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="211" pageNumber="212" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The name is a noun in its genitive form based on the name of the late Dr. Michel Brancucci, Basel, Switzerland, who kindly provided a large material of African
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="211" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Laccophilus</taxonomicName>
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for this revision, including the holotype of the new species. During the years Brancucci worked intensively with the taxonomy of the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="211" pageNumber="212" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Laccophilus</taxonomicName>
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and the tribe
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="211" pageNumber="212" rank="tribe" tribe="Laccophilini">Laccophilini</taxonomicName>
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.
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<subSubSection pageId="211" pageNumber="212" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Central African Republic, only known from the type locality (Fig. 567).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="211" pageNumber="212" type="collecting circumstances">
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Collecting circumstances.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="211" pageNumber="212">Almost unknown, collected with light.</paragraph>
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