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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="5A1DE918034C748CB136AF40C47F6AA9" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 542: 1-379" docOrigin="ZooKeys 542" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.542.5975" docTitle="Laccophilus furthi Bistroem, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="8450329E-15FC-47FD-BBC9-F1FEAC01EA45" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="37" masterDocId="E3118410B56DFF839B32FF89FFCCFFB0" masterDocTitle="Taxonomic revision of Afrotropical Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae)" masterLastPageNumber="379" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="36" 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:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
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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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<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
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<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.542.5975</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-542-1</mods:identifier>
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<mods:identifier type="ZooBank">026407877355425BAB10BF1674510F12</mods:identifier>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="127862790" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:8450329E-15FC-47FD-BBC9-F1FEAC01EA45" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/5A1DE918034C748CB136AF40C47F6AA9" lastPageId="36" lastPageNumber="37" pageId="35" pageNumber="36">
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<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="multiple">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="nomenclature">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/8450329E-15FC-47FD-BBC9-F1FEAC01EA45" class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus furthi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furthi">Laccophilus furthi</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="35" pageNumber="36">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 37, 235-236, 393, 532
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="type locality">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa, 7 km West of Ranomafana.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="type material">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Type material</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">
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(2 exs.): Holotype: male: "Madagascar: Prov. Fianarantsoa, 7 km W Ranomafana, 1100 m 8-21. October 1988 W.E. Steiner / From stream with mossy rocks and sandy bottom, montane rainforest" (USNM; habitus in Fig. 393). - Paratype: "Madagascar 19-22.1. 2000 Toamasina distr. (
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Périnet">Perinet</normalizedToken>
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) Analamazaotra S Andasibe
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<geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="-18.935833">18°56'09"S</geoCoordinate>
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,
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<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="48.413334">48°24'48"E</geoCoordinate>
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, O. Hovorka leg., black light" (1 ex. NMPC).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus furthi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furthi">Laccophilus furthi</taxonomicName>
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resembles most of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus alluaudi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alluaudi">Laccophilus alluaudi</taxonomicName>
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,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus comes" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="comes">Laccophilus comes</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus tigrinus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tigrinus">Laccophilus tigrinus</taxonomicName>
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. Distinguishable by study of the penis, the shape of which is almost straight and comparatively broad in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus furthi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furthi">Laccophilus furthi</taxonomicName>
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, while sinuate and less evenly broad in the three resembling species mentioned above. Vide diagnosis of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus alluaudi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="alluaudi">Laccophilus alluaudi</taxonomicName>
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(p. 41).
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="36" lastPageNumber="37" pageId="35" pageNumber="36" type="description">
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Body length 3.7-3.8 mm, width 2.0 mm. Dorsal, colour pattern of body as in Fig. 393. Dark, longitudinal lines on elytra gradually fade away towards base of elytra.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Head: Pale ferrugineous. Submat to rather shiny, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double, but size classes of meshes difficult to distinguish. In part meshes mixed and sculpture appears irregular, consisting of variable shaped meshes. Impunctate, except at eyes; with fine, irregular punctures, which extend a short distance towards middle of head-disc.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Pronotum: Pale ferrugineous; no distinct colour pattern. Submat to rather shiny, finely microsculptured. Reticulation double but size classes of meshes difficult to distinguish. In part meshes mixed, and sculpture appears irregular, consisting of variable shaped meshes. Impunctate, except frontally and laterally; with very fine, scattered punctures.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="35" pageNumber="36">Elytra: Pale ferrugineous, with dark ferrugineous to brownish, longitudinal areas, which anteriorly, gradually fade away in the holotype while quite distinct in paratype (Fig. 393). Rather shiny, although finely and densely microsculptured. Reticulation double, but large meshes almost absent because strongly reduced (only rudiments discernible). Very fine, irregular punctures form a somewhat vague, discal row. Dorsolateral and lateral rows indistinct; indicated by some scattered fine punctures. Pre-apical row consists of fine, slightly impressed punctures provided with fine hairs. In apical quarter of elytra fine punctures mixed and no separate rows discernible.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="36" pageNumber="37" start="start">Ventral</pageBreakToken>
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aspect: Pale ferrugineous, except metathorax and -coxal plates; blackish to dark ferrugineous. Shiny to rather shiny, microsculpture almost absent. Only very fine rudimentary microsculpture can sporadically be discerned. Abdomen with very fine, curved striae. Impunctate, except apical ventrite; with some fine, scattered punctures; shape of ventrite almost symmetric (Fig. 35). Metacoxal plates with 3-4, very fine, in part reduced, transverse furrows. Lateral impression on metacoxal plate moderate but clearly discernible. Prosternal process rather slender, posteriorly moderately extended, apically pointed.
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Legs: Pale ferrugineous. Pro- and mesotarsus slightly enlarged and extended, with suckers.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Male genitalia: Penis exhibits few modifications, being almost straight both in lateral and dorsal aspects (Figs 235-236).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Female: Unknown.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="36" pageNumber="37" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
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The name is a noun in its genitive form based on the name of Dr. David Furth, Washington D.C., USA, who kindly assured the loan of large African
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Laccophilus</taxonomicName>
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collections for this study, deposited in USNM.
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<subSubSection pageId="36" pageNumber="37" type="distribution">
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Madagascar (Fig. 532).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="36" pageNumber="37" type="collecting circumstances">
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">Collecting circumstances.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="36" pageNumber="37">
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Collecting label informs that
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Dytiscidae" genus="Laccophilus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Laccophilus furthi" order="Coleoptera" pageId="36" pageNumber="37" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="furthi">Laccophilus furthi</taxonomicName>
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has been "collected from stream with mossy rocks and sandy bottom in montane rainforest". The single paratype was collected by black light.
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