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Issue: Vol. 4127 No. 2: 23 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.2.7
Page range: 355–364
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 47

Illustrated redescription of Haliplus (Liaphlus) arrowi Guignot, 1936 (Coleoptera: Haliplidae) from the Western Ghats, India, and notes on the closely related H. angustifrons Régimbart, 1892

Department of Biodiversity, Abasaheb Garware College, Pune–4, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Zoology, Modern College, Shivajinagar, Pune–5, Maharashtra, India.
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, c/o Roestuin 78, 3343 CV Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, The Netherlands.
Coleoptera Crawling water beetles maculation SEM metasternal pits Oriental

Abstract

In an ongoing survey of aquatic beetles, the crawling water beetles Haliplus (Liaphlus) arrowi Guignot, 1936 and Haliplus (Liaphlus) angustifrons Régimbart, 1892 were found only from four (three localities for H. arrowi and one locality for H. angustifrons) out of 85 localities sampled in and around the Western Ghats of Maharashtra. Digital images and scanning electron micrographs of diagnostic characters are provided for the first time for both the species. Intraspecific and interspecific variation in the elytral maculation of H. arrowi and H. angustifrons is illustrated.

 

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