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Scientific Name: Laccodytes sp Régimbart, 1895
Insects : Laccodytes sp

Photo: Plazi

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Dytiscidae
Description:
The body is somewhat drop-shaped, and the tip of the elytron is truncated. The hind angle of the pronotum is slightly produced backward and appears faintly needle-shaped. Regarding coloration, the head and pronotum are yellow, with a slightly darker shade at the middle of the base. The elytron is black with a contrasting yellow pattern, featuring an entirely yellow marginal area except for a small darker region at the base below the pronotal hind angle. Appendages and the ventral side of the beetle are yellow to orange. Both the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the beetle exhibit a faint microreticulation (MR), excluding the base of the metaventrite and the posterior part of the metacoxal process. The microreticulation is regular and honeycomb-shaped on the head and pronotum, while it is more irregular, slightly elongated, and horizontally oriented on the elytron, showing very small punctures at 100x magnification. The metaventrite displays a microreticulation of larger polygonal meshes posteriorly and a few punctures. The metacoxal process exhibits a microreticulation anteriorly, while posteriorly, there are only punctures. The metacoxa has numerous diagonally oriented longish cells, creating the impression of dense diagonal striation or dense punctation, depending on the observation angle. In females, sternite 7 is rounded on both sides, and the hind margin features a small and shallow V-shaped emargination in the middle.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Found in a stream, ponds.
Environment:
Freshwater
Comments:
Aquatic
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