Limbodessus alexanderi Balke & Hendrich, 2015

Balke, Michael, Villastrigo, Adrián, Hájek, Jiří, Surbakti, Suriani, Panjaitan, Rawati & Hendrich, Lars, 2025, A review of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 from New Guinea, with description of eight new tropical-alpine species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini), Alpine Entomology 9, pp. 5-28 : 5-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/alpento.9.147831
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15602658
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scientific name	Limbodessus alexanderi Balke & Hendrich, 2015
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Limbodessus alexanderi Balke & Hendrich, 2015 View in CoL

Limbodessus alexanderi Balke & Hendrich in Balke et al. 2015: 4 (original description); Hendrich et al. 2020: 590 (key); Surbakti et al. 2023: 417 (descr., key). View in CoL View Cited Treatment

Material examined.

Paratypes: 10 exs., “ Indonesia, Papua; N Sugapa 3000 m, 3°40'11.90"S, 137°4'51.31"E, 27. xii. 1995, Riedel leg. ” GoogleMaps ; 4 exs. with green labels: “ M. Balke 4424, 4425, 6423, 6424 ” ( MZB, ZSM).

Morpholog. Habitus: Male (Fig. 1 B View Figure 1 ) and female (Fig. 2 B View Figure 2 ).

Antennae: Male and female (Fig. 13 G View Figure 13 ).

Median lobe (Fig. 8 C View Figure 8 ) and paramere (Figs 10 G View Figure 10 , 11 H View Figure 11 ).

Distribution.

Indonesian New Guinea, known only from the type locality at 3,000 m, which is the mountain range north of Sugapa, Papua ( Balke et al. 2015) (Fig. 14 View Figure 14 ).