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Issue: Vol. 4299 No. 1: 26 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.1.6
Page range: 121–130
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Larvae of Ancyronyx Erichson, 1847 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elmidae) from Sulawesi, using DNA sequences for the assignment of the larval stages

Ateneo de Manila University, Biology Department, School of Science & Engineering, Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1101, the Philippines.
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Science, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina B-1, SK-842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.
Coleoptera Ancyronyx larval stage DNA-taxonomy Elmidae Sulawesi

Abstract

We describe the immature stages of six Ancyronyx (Spider Riffle Beetles) species from Sulawesi: A. henningi Freitag & Kodada, 2017; A. longiparamerus Freitag & Kodada, 2017; A. skalei Freitag & Kodada, 2017; A. schoedli Freitag & Kodada, 2017; A. tobada Freitag & Kodada, 2017 and A. toraja Freitag & Kodada, 2017. The larvae were assigned to adults by comparison of their Cox1 gene fragment (mtDNA) which was amplified, sequenced and aligned with the corresponding locus of identified adults. The larvae are illustrated with habitus photographs and SEM micrographs.

 

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