taxonID	type	description	language	source
8B16CE7EFFA9FFC07121FAB242607A37.taxon	materials_examined	Material examined: 2 specimens (1 male and 1 female) collected from Wah (‘ Wah ’ is local term for ‘ river’) Kongong, Kongong village, East Jaiñtia Hills District, Meghalaya (Lat. 25 o 25 ’ 04.8 ’’, Long. 092 o 17 ’ 06.5 ’’, 1304 meters ASL) and Collected by Mrs Jennifer Lyngdoh on 24.01.2006. Diagnosis: Length: male: 15 mm, female: 12 mm; Form oval and moderately convex; Head black; Pronotum black with sides blending into yellow along the anterior margin behind eyes; Elytra black in colour with two humeral and submarginal bright / golden-yellow longitudinal lateral stripes not joined posteriorly on both side, humeral stripe running from the base to the apex slightly curved inwards and ending in the form of crochet whereas submarginal stripe comparatively broader than humeral stripe ending before the middle of the elytra; three basal segment of protarsi largely dilated and provided with ‘ sucker pallettes’, mesotarsi with two rows of ‘ sessile pallettes’ on the basal three segments in male. Distribution: India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Kerala, Sikkim, Manipur and Meghalaya. Elsewhere: Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam. Remarks: First report from Meghalaya.	en	Deb, Rita (2017): New record of Hydaticus (Prodaticus) Bipunctatus Bipunctatus Wehncke, 1876 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from Meghalaya. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (4): 394, DOI: 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121400, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121400
