Two new species of Limbodessus diving beetles from New Guinea - short verbal descriptions flanked by online content (digital photography, μCT scans, drawings and DNA sequence data)

By

Balke, Michael
Ruthensteiner, Bernhard
Warikar, Evie
Neven, Katja
Hendrich, Lars

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-12-22

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

3

Pages

1--33

Subjects

DNA sequence data , Dytiscidae , high resolution photography , Limbodessus , minimalistic descriptions , New Guinea , new species , μCT scans

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e7096

 

Abstract

To date only one species of Limbodessus diving beetles has been reported from the Island of New Guinea, L. compactus (Clark, 1862), which is widerspread in the Australian region.<br> We describe two new species of microendemic New Guinea Limbodessus and use a compact descriptive format flanked by enriched online content in wiki powered species pages. Limbodessus baliem sp.n. is described from ca. 1,600 m altitude in the Baliem Valley of Papua and Limbodessus alexanderi sp.n. from &amp;gt;3,000 m altitude north of Sugapa, Papua.<br> Based on our analysis, we also transfer three species from other genera to Limbodessus Guignot, 1939, with the following changes: Limbodessus deflectus (Ordish, 1966), new combination; Limbodessus leveri (J. Balfour-Browne, 1944), new combination; and Limbodessus plicatus (Sharp, 1882), new combination.