Two new species of Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from India and Borneo with notes on other species of the genus
Hájek Jiří, Šťastný Jaroslav
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45: 51-58, 2005
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Abstract: Laccophilus boukali sp. nov. (L. chinensis-group) from Karnataka, India, and L.
uncletan (L. siamensis-group) from Sabah, Malaysia are described, illustrated
and compared with related species. New distributional data are published for the
following species: L. chinensis Boheman, 1858 from Cambodia and Malaysia; L.
chini Balke, Mazzoldi & Hendrich, 1998 from Laos; L. flexuosus Aubé,
1838 from Laos; L. punctatissimus Brancucci, 1983 from Myanmar; L. ritsemae
Régimbart, 1880 from Lombok; L. t. transversalis Régimbart, 1877 from
Sulawesi; L. t. leptogonus Brancucci, 1983 from Laos, Thailand and Malaysia;
and L. t. lituratus Sharp, 1882 from Sumatra.
Key words: Dytiscidae, Laccophilus, new species, new records, Oriental Region