identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
039887E0FFC1FFD57E9BF62E1641FBB3.text	039887E0FFC1FFD57E9BF62E1641FBB3.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Copelatus bacchusi Wewalka, Koleopterologische Rundschau 1981	<div><p>Copelatus bacchusi Wewalka, 1981 (Figure 1)</p><p>1981. Copelatus bacchusi Wewalka, Koleopterologische Rundschau, 55: 65–70.</p><p>2012. Copelatus bacchusi, Ghosh &amp; Nilsson, Skorvnopparn supplement, 3:13.</p><p>2021. Copelatus bacchusi, Shaverdo et al., Aquatic insects, 42: 179-196.</p><p>2022. Copelatus bacchusi, Jiang et al., Zootaxa, 3: 5124.</p><p>Type locality: Haldwani, Uttarakhand, India (29.2166N,</p><p>79.5166E)</p><p>Material examined: 2♂, 4♀, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=80.0332&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.8364" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 80.0332/lat 17.8364)">Bhemuni Paadam Waterfall</a> (17.8364N, 80.0332E) (Figure 2), <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=80.0332&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=17.8364" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 80.0332/lat 17.8364)">Pakhal Wildlife Sanctuary</a>, Warangal, Telangana, India, 12.xi.2022, leg. Jaiswal and Shankar (Reg. FBRC /ZSI/INS/3383) .</p><p>Diagnostic characters: Body size- 4.60-5.20mm, Length of anterior border of pronotum to tip of elytra- 4.1-4.4mm, Head length-0.52- 069mm, Head width- 1.34-1.4mm, Pronotum length- 0.72- 0.81mm, Pronotum width- 1.94-</p><p>1.98mm, Distance between level of maximum width to tip of elytra- 2.0- 2.3mm, Maximum width of body-</p><p>2.0- 2.2mm. Head, Pronotum, Elytra, testaceous, dark to brown. Apex of pronotum acute. Elytra with six complete longitudinal strioles laterally, and one submarginal stria, 1-5 longitudinal strioles started the base of the elytra ends at close to apex. The length of striae varies based on their position. Submarginal stria short. Male genitalia median lobe slender, apex acute, later side weakly sickle-shaped, skewed ventral side.</p><p>Parameres C shaped, slender, with tough setation, and apexs narrow.</p><p>Distribution: Oriental region (Bhutan, India [Telangana, West Bengal], Myanmar, Thailand Vietnam); Palaearctic Region (China, India [Uttarakhand]). (Ghosh &amp; Nilsson 2012; Shaverdo et al., 2021; Jiang et al., 2022).</p><p>Molecular Analysis</p><p>The current study contributed the first mt COI sequence of species Copelatus bacchusi to the NCBI database. A total of six sequences of Copelatus have been generated, some closely related (LCO&amp;HCO) sequences were acquired from NCBI and a phylogenetic tree was constructed. C. bacchusi shows the genetic distance of Copelatus mysorensis, C. neelumae, C. bacchusi and C. deccanensis . C. bacchusi shows genetic distances between 11-16% with all the above species. Differs from Copelatus sp. from Madagascar and C. deccanensis by 11%, C. japonicas by 14%, C. neelumae by 13%, C. kammuliensis by 14%, and C. teranishii 14%. C. bacchusi and C. mysorensis have a high genetic difference of 16% (Table 1, Figure 3). The study is aware that closely related species of Copelatus bacchusi sequences are limited for molecular analysis since the relationship of Copelatus bacchusi cannot be calculated satisfactorily level.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039887E0FFC1FFD57E9BF62E1641FBB3	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Jaiswal, Deepa;Shankar, Shiva;Kumar, Devadoss;Madasamy, Karuthapandi;Jadhav, Shrikant	Jaiswal, Deepa, Shankar, Shiva, Kumar, Devadoss, Madasamy, Karuthapandi, Jadhav, Shrikant (2024): Morphological and molecular characterization of Copelatus bacchusi Wewalka, 1981 (Insecta: Dytiscidae) from Telangana, India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 124 (3): 295-299, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v124/i3/2024/172439, URL: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v124/i3/2024/172439
