Laccophilus inefficiens
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Dytiscidae |
| Genus: | Laccophilus |
| Species: | L. inefficiens
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| Laccophilus inefficiens (Walker, 1859)
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Laccophilus inefficiens, is a species of predaceous diving beetle found in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Iran and Malaysia.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Description[edit]
This elongated oval species has a body length of 3.43 mm.[7] Body with pale testaceous elytra with reduced brownish coloration.[8] Thread like antennae with 11 segmented which are uniformly yellowish brown in color. Eyes continuous with outline of head, and testaceous with indistinct darker spots. Pronotum also testaceous, but scutellum is not visible clearly. In elytra, there is a sub basal transverse sinuous band. Apex of each elytron without yellowish rounded patches. Elytra with undulating single or double lines, sometimes single lines reduced to irritation of small, then curved lines.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ "FURTHER CONTRIBUTION ON DIVING BEETLES FROM MAHARASHTRA, INDIA (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE)". Rec. zool. Surv. India : 115(Part-1) : 81-84, 2015. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
- ^ "Laccophilus inefficiens (Walker, 1859)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "Two new species of Laccophilus Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from India and Borneo with notes on other species of the genus". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 45(1):51-58. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ Sheth, Sayali D.; Padhye, Anand D.; Ghate, Hemant V. (2019). "Factors affecting aquatic beetle communities of Northern Western Ghats of India (Arthropoda: Insecta: Coleoptera)". Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology. 55: 1. doi:10.1051/limn/2018030. S2CID 92559234. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "Dytiscidae collected by M.A. Jäch in Bhutan, 2005 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)". Koleopterologische Rundschau 77 81–87 Wien, Juli 2007. doi:10.1051/limn/2018030. S2CID 92559234. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ "Results of the austrian-ceylonese hydrobiological mission 1970" (PDF). Bull. Fish. Res. Stn, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Vol. 24, Nos.l & 2-pp. 83-87s 1973. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ "Laccophilus inefficiens". www.kaefer-der-welt.de. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
- ^ "The westernmost record of Neptosternus circumductus, and a review of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of Baluchistan (Iran, Pakistan)" (PDF). ACTA ENTOMOLOGICA MUSEI NATIONALIS PRAGAE Published 6.xi.2006 Volume 46, pp. 43-56. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
- ^ "Morphometrical and molecular survey of some water beetles of Manipur" (PDF). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 2017; 5(6): 785-791. Retrieved 2021-08-07.
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