Laccophilus alluaudi, Regimbart, 1900
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.4.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4451159 |
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The Laccophilus alluaudi View in CoL -group
Diagnosis. Members of this group are characterised by: body dorso-ventrally flattened (not subcylindrical); elytra provided with characteristic straight and somewhat broad longitudinal dark vittae (their medial area often more or less paler) alternating with more or less interrupted yellow stripes; dorsal reticulation double (discernible at least on pronotum disk and scutellar region of elytra); metacoxal plates without stridulation apparatus; metacoxal process posteriorly truncate, not expanded; posterior margin of apical abdominal ventrite not modified (i.e. not sinuate on both sides of midline); male apical abdominal ventrite symmetric, lacking process on left side. The allaudi -group is endemic of Madagascar and the Comoro islands.
Species list. With the three species newly described below, the alluaudi -group comprises the following species (distribution data for previously described species from Biström et al. 2015 and our own sampling data):
- Laccophilus alluaudi Régimbart, 1900 (widespread Madagascar endemic);
- Laccophilus bergsteni sp. nov. (endemic of the mountain massifs of central Madagascar)
- Laccophilus comes Guignot, 1955 (endemic of Madagascar, mainly in eastern rain forests, with isolated records along the central western coast);
- Laccophilus furthi Biström, Nilsson & Bergsten, 2015 (known only from Ranomafana and Andasibe in eastern Madagascar);
- Laccophilus leguyaderi sp. nov. (endemic of the Andringitra mountain massif in central-southern Madagascar);
- Laccophilus makay sp. nov. (endemic of the Makay massif in south-western Madagascar);
- Laccophilus pseustes Guignot, 1955 (known only from the Isalo massif in central-south Madagascar);
- Laccophilus seyrigi Guignot, 1937 (a very rare species endemic of southern Madagascar, described from Békily and sampled by us in the Isalo massif and south of the Makay);
- Laccophilus tigrinus Guignot, 1959 (endemic of the Comoro islands).
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