Bioacoustics of Laccophilus laeticulus

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diagnosis · Plazi

Diagnosis . Members of this group are characterised by: body dorso-ventrally flattened (not subcylindrical); elytra dark ferrugineous to dark brown with distinct pale subbasal transverse band; dorsal reticulation double (discernible at least on pronotum disk and scutellar region of elytra); metacoxal plates with weakly developed semicircular stridulation apparatus; metacoxal process posteriorly truncate, not expanded; posterior margin of apical abdominal ventrite modified, strongly sinuate on both sides of midline, with medial part distinctly produced; male apical abdominal ventrite strongly asymmetric, with distinct process on left side; median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view slightly angled, narrowing distinctly from middle to apex, with dorsal outline close to apex smooth (without minute ridges). The laeticulus -group is exclusively Afrotropical (mainland Africa south of Sahara and Madagascar ). Species list . With the species newly described below, the laeticulus -group comprises the following species (distribution data for previously described species from Biström et al. 2015 ): - Laccophilus laeticulus Régimbart, 1895 (from Guinea and Sierra Leone ); - Laccophilus occidentalis Biström, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015 (from Gambia , Senegal , Mali , Guinea , Sierra Leone , Ivory Coast , Ghana , Benin , Nigeria , Central African Republic and Zaire ); - Laccophilus rakouthae sp. nov. (known only from the Ankaratra massif in central-southern Madagascar ); - Laccophilus transversovittatus Biström, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015 (widespread Madagascar endemic).

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SourceIts nameIts rankIts familyRecord
PlaziLaccophilus laeticulusSpeciesDytiscidaePlazi/Laccophilus laeticulus

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