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Issue: Vol. 2792 No. 1: 16 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2792.1.6
Page range: 63–67
Abstract views: 80
PDF downloaded: 3

Description of a new species of Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895 (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Laccophilinae) from Cuba

Museo di Storia Naturale, Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale, Università di Parma, via Farini 90, I-43100 Parma, Italy
Departamento de Biología, Museo de Historia Natural "Charles Ramsden”, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Department of Biology, Laurentian University, Ransey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Coleoptera Dytiscidae Laccophilinae Laccodytes new species Cuba Neotropical Region

Abstract

Laccodytes cobrinae sp. n. is described from Cuba, which brings to 11 the number of species included in the Neotropical Laccophilinae genus Laccodytes Régimbart, 1895. Description and illustration of the new species are provided along with a discussion of its ecology and systematic position. The unexpected discovery of a new species in Cuba represents the first mention of Laccodytes in the Caribbean area, which extends considerably the distribution of the genus in the Neotropics. Such finding suggests that other species of Laccodytes could be found elsewhere in the Caribbean or Antilles as well as north of the Orinoco basin.

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