A subterranean species of Exocelina diving beetle from the Malay Peninsula filling a 4,000 km distribution gap between Melanesia and southern China

We describe a new subterranean species of the genus Exocelina Broun, 1886 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Malay Peninsula. Almost all of the 196 species of that genus are epigean and distributed mainly in New Guinea, Australia, Oceania and New Caledonia. One epigean species is, however, known from...

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Main Authors: Michael Balke, Ignacio Ribera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-03-01
Series:Subterranean Biology
Online Access:https://subtbiol.pensoft.net/article/50148/download/pdf/