Limbodessus skalei Hendrich, Surbakti & Balke, 2020

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

Limbodessus skalei Hendrich, Surbakti & Balke, 2020

Limbodessus skalei Hendrich, Surbakti & Balke, 2020: 588 (original description); Surbakti et al. 2023: 420 (key).

Type material.

Holotype: Male, “ Indonesia, W-Papua, Raja Ampat Prov., Waigeo, Werabiai River , 197 m, - 0.258519 ° 130.985685 °, 11. 1. 2004 ”, “ HOLOTYPE Limbodessus skalei sp. nov. Hendrich & Balke det. 2019 ” [red printed label] ( MZB) . Paratypes: One male and one female with the same data as the holotype ( ZSM) .

Additional material examined.

1 ex., “ Indonesia: West Papua, Kebar valley , 596 m, 6. v. 2015, - 0, 8406 133,268 2, Panjaitan et al. (BH 059) ” ( KSP). First record of the species for New Guinea .

Morphology.

Habitus: Male (Fig. 6 A ) and female (Fig. 6 B ).

Antennae: Male and female (Fig. 13 M ).

Median lobe (Fig. 9 C ).

Distribution.

Known from the type locality on Waigeo Island ( Hendrich et al. 2020) and Bird’s Head Peninsula (Vogelkop) of New Guinea (Fig. 14 ).

Figures

Figure 6. Habitus of L. skalei, male, paratype (A); L. skalei, female, Vogelkop (B). Scale bar: 1 mm.

Figure 9. Median lobes ventral and lateral of: L. baliem (A); L. paniai sp. nov. (B); L. skalei (C). Scale bar: 0.5 mm.

Figure 13. Antennae of: L. aipo sp. nov., male (A); L. aldente sp. nov., female (B); L. elit sp. nov., female (C); L. wilhelmina sp. nov., male (D); L. compactus, male, female (E); L. habbema sp. nov., male, female (F); L. alexanderi, male, female (G); L. juliana sp. nov., male, female (H); L. baliem, female, male (I); L. konoensis sp. nov., female (J); L. moni, male, female (K); L. paniai sp. nov., male (L) and L. skalei, male (M). Scale bar: 0.5 mm.

Figure 14. Distribution of Limbodessus in New Guinea. The lowland species L. compactus can be expected along the shore of the whole island up to 500 m.