Bioacoustics of Laccophilus alluaudi

Species

Account

What the sources say about this taxon, as written.

diagnosis · Plazi

Diagnosis . Members of this group are characterised by: body dorso-ventrally flattened (not subcylindrical); elytra provided with characteristic straight and somewhat broad longitudinal dark vittae (their medial area often more or less paler) alternating with more or less interrupted yellow stripes; dorsal reticulation double (discernible at least on pronotum disk and scutellar region of elytra); metacoxal plates without stridulation apparatus; metacoxal process posteriorly truncate, not expanded; posterior margin of apical abdominal ventrite not modified (i.e. not sinuate on both sides of midline); male apical abdominal ventrite symmetric, lacking process on left side. The allaudi -group is endemic of Madagascar and the Comoro islands . Species list . With the three species newly described below, the alluaudi -group comprises the following species (distribution data for previously described species from Biström et al. 2015 and our own sampling data): - Laccophilus alluaudi Régimbart, 1900 (widespread Madagascar endemic); - Laccophilus bergsteni sp. nov. (endemic of the mountain massifs of central Madagascar ) - Laccophilus comes Guignot, 1955 (endemic of Madagascar , mainly in eastern rain forests, with isolated records along the central western coast); - Laccophilus furthi Biström, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015 (known only from Ranomafana and Andasibe in eastern Madagascar ); - Laccophilus leguyaderi sp. nov. (endemic of the Andringitra mountain massif in central-southern Madagascar ); - Laccophilus makay sp. nov. (endemic of the Makay massif in south-western Madagascar ); - Laccophilus pseustes Guignot, 1955 (known only from the Isalo massif in central-south Madagascar ); - Laccophilus seyrigi Guignot, 1937 (a very rare species endemic of southern Madagascar , described from Békily and sampled by us in the Isalo massif and south of the Makay); - Laccophilus tigrinus Guignot, 1959 (endemic of the Comoro islands ).

this account at Plazi

Browse

Counts are recordings at or below each taxon, so an empty branch shows as empty before you click it. A dash means the join view holds no column for that rank and cannot roll up to it.

Higher classification

Contains

Nothing below this taxon in audioBlast.

Alongside

Sources

The rows audioBlast holds for this taxon, each matched to the same Catalogue of Life node. Where a source classifies it differently, its own classification is kept.

SourceIts nameIts rankIts familyRecord
PlaziLaccophilus alluaudiSpeciesDytiscidaePlazi/Laccophilus alluaudi

Machine-readable

Bioschemas is in the head of this page. The Darwin Core RDF lives at the API address below, which negotiates JSON-LD and Turtle.

Bioschemas Taxon, as embedded
{
  "@context": [
    "https://schema.org/",
    {
      "dwc": "http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/"
    }
  ],
  "@type": "Taxon",
  "@id": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/laccophilus-alluaudi/",
  "name": "Laccophilus alluaudi",
  "taxonRank": "species",
  "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/laccophilus-alluaudi/",
  "sameAs": "https://api.audioblast.org/taxon/CoL/3RM4W",
  "parentTaxon": {
    "@type": "Taxon",
    "name": "Laccophilus",
    "taxonRank": "genus",
    "url": "https://browse.acousti.cloud/taxon/laccophilus/"
  }
}