Leiodytes Guignot, 1936

Hendrich, Lars, Wang, Liang-Jong & Balke, Michael, 2021, Taxonomic revision of Australasian diving beetles in the genus Leiodytes Guignot 1936 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Bidessini), Zootaxa 4990 (1), pp. 23-44 : 37

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4990.1.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4984581

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F14C8784-B80B-FF84-FF31-4AA9B0A1EC59

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scientific name

Leiodytes Guignot, 1936
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Key to Australasian Leiodytes Guignot, 1936 View in CoL

1. Body roundish. Dorsoventrally rather domed ( Figs 1A, B View FIGURE 1 ). Elytron with well-marked ridge continuing line of pronotal lateral margin backwards; ridge obsolete in middle of elytron. Posterior margin of pronotum with two blackish markings. Median lobe and paramere as in Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 .............................................................. migrator Sharp, 1882 View in CoL

- Body more elongate. Elytron without well-marked ridge. Dorsoventrally more flattened............................. 2

2. Elytron ferruginous with vague blackish markings ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Head with distinct cervical line ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ). Larger: TL = 1.85–2.15 mm. Median lobe and paramere as in Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 ..................................................... wattsi View in CoL sp. nov.

- Elytron plain ferruginous without any blackish markings ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ). Head with indistinct cervical line ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ). Smaller: TL = 1.75–1.9 mm. Median lobe and paramere as in Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ........................................... surianiae View in CoL sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Dytiscidae

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