Laccophilus auropictus Regimbart 1899

Autor: Hájek, Jiří, Brancucci, Michel
Rok vydání: 2015
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5466881
Popis: Laccophilus auropictus Régimbart, 1899 (Figs. 2, 19) Laccophilus auropictus Régimbart, 1899: 253 (original description); Vazirani, 1969: 241 (description, new records); 1972: 120 (lectotype designation); Brancucci, 1983: 259 (description, new records). Type locality. Indes orientales: mont Kodeikanel, aux environs de Madras [= India, Tamil Nadu State, Kodaikanal]. Material examined. 229 specimens. INDIA: Tamil Nadu: 1 ex., Madura: Shembaganur, coll. R. de Buck (IRSNB); 2 males 1 female, Maruthamalai, 23 October 1913, 1600 ft (ZSMG); 2 ex., Shembaganur, 1929–30, coll. R.P. Manuel (IRSNB); 30 exs., Salem Dt., Shevaroy Hills, 3000–4000 ft, September 1934, coll. P.S. Nathan (IRSNB); 2 exs., Coimbatore, January 1938, coll. P.S. Nathan (IRSNB); 13 ex., Anamalai Hills, Cinchona, 3500 ft, May 1968, coll. P.S. Nathan (NBCL); 2 ex., Nilgiri Hills, Road Ootacamud – Masnigudi, 1450 m, 27 December 1994, coll. P. Mazzoldi (PMCB); 51 ex., Road Palni – Kodaikanal, 800–900 m, stream, 30 December 1994, coll. P. Mazzoldi (PMCB); 102 ex., Road Salem – Yercaud, 12 km from Yercaud, 800–900 m, 4 January 1995, coll. P. Mazzoldi (PMCB); 3 ex., Palani Hills, Poolathur Jn, Kodaikanal – Batlagundu rd., 10°14′N 77°39′E, ca. 900 m, 15 January 1999, coll. D. Boukal (NHMW); 6 ex., Shevaroy Hills, Yercaud, Kiliur Falls env., 11°47′N 78°12′E, 1400 m, 25 January 1999, coll. D. Boukal (NHMW); 2 males 2 females, Nilgiris, 15 km SE Kotagiri, Kunchappanai, 11.22N 76.56E, 900 m, 7–22 May 2000, coll. J. Rolčík (NMPC); 10 ex., same label data, but coll. D. Hauck (NHMB, NMPC). Diagnosis. Large, broadly oval species (body length 4.5–4.7 mm). Elytra with subbasal testaceous band narrow, sinuous, well separated from elytral base; elytra without mediolateral spot (Fig. 2). Apical part of median lobe in lateral view with distinct bulge on dorsal side (Fig. 19). Distribution. A species occurring in southern India (Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states) (Fig. 41), the single record from southern Myanmar (Guignot, 1954) most probably belongs to another species, e.g., Laccophilus hendrichi.
Published as part of Hájek, Jiří & Brancucci, Michel, 2015, A taxonomic review of the Oriental Laccophilus javanicus species group (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), pp. 309-326 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 63 on pages 311-314, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5385198
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