{"title":"Life history of <i>Laccophilus dikinohaseus</i> Kamite, Hikida, and Satô, 2005 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) and its preferences for oviposition substrates","authors":"Kohei Watanabe, Ryuto Uchiyama","doi":"10.1080/01650424.2023.2251456","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWe describe the life history of Laccophilus dikinohaseus Kamite, Hikida, and Satô, Citation2005 using laboratory rearing-based methods to contribute to future ex situ and in situ conservation. At 26 °C, each developmental stage had the following duration: egg, 6–7 days; first-instar, 3–5 days; second-instar, 3–5 days; third-instar in water, 7–18 days; landing to leaving the pupal chamber, 9–11 days; and total duration of the immature stages, 30–44 days. The total larval period was significantly longer than those of L. yoshitomii Watanabe and Kamite, Citation2018, L. kobensis Sharp, Citation1873, and L. hebusuensis Watanabe and Kamite, Citation2020. The maximum complete lifespan (egg to adult death) and adult lifespan (exiting the pupal chamber to adult death) were 792 and 762 days, respectively, indicating that L. dikinohaseus can live for more than two years after the adults exit the pupal chamber. Laccophilus dikinohaseus laid eggs not only in aquatic plants but also in driftwood and withered plants, suggesting a diverse oviposition substrate availability. This is the first study on the immature stages of L. dikinohaseus and lifespan of Laccophilus. We propose in situ conservation measures for L. dikinohaseus based on its findings.Keywords: Conservationdiving beetleegg laying behaviourimmature stagelifespan AcknowledgementsWe express our sincere gratitude to Tomoki Sumikawa at the Ishikawa Insect Museum for his cooperation with rearing experiments and confirming the ages of larvae. We would also like to thank Naoto Kokubun for his help in identifying the plants, Toshiki Takano and Daiki Uchida for their assistance in the survey, and Wataru Mukaimine and Futoshi Ujiie for their advice in the analysis. Finally, we would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing.Disclosure statementThe authors declare no conflict of interest.","PeriodicalId":55492,"journal":{"name":"Aquatic Insects","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Aquatic Insects","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01650424.2023.2251456","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENTOMOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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AbstractWe describe the life history of Laccophilus dikinohaseus Kamite, Hikida, and Satô, Citation2005 using laboratory rearing-based methods to contribute to future ex situ and in situ conservation. At 26 °C, each developmental stage had the following duration: egg, 6–7 days; first-instar, 3–5 days; second-instar, 3–5 days; third-instar in water, 7–18 days; landing to leaving the pupal chamber, 9–11 days; and total duration of the immature stages, 30–44 days. The total larval period was significantly longer than those of L. yoshitomii Watanabe and Kamite, Citation2018, L. kobensis Sharp, Citation1873, and L. hebusuensis Watanabe and Kamite, Citation2020. The maximum complete lifespan (egg to adult death) and adult lifespan (exiting the pupal chamber to adult death) were 792 and 762 days, respectively, indicating that L. dikinohaseus can live for more than two years after the adults exit the pupal chamber. Laccophilus dikinohaseus laid eggs not only in aquatic plants but also in driftwood and withered plants, suggesting a diverse oviposition substrate availability. This is the first study on the immature stages of L. dikinohaseus and lifespan of Laccophilus. We propose in situ conservation measures for L. dikinohaseus based on its findings.Keywords: Conservationdiving beetleegg laying behaviourimmature stagelifespan AcknowledgementsWe express our sincere gratitude to Tomoki Sumikawa at the Ishikawa Insect Museum for his cooperation with rearing experiments and confirming the ages of larvae. We would also like to thank Naoto Kokubun for his help in identifying the plants, Toshiki Takano and Daiki Uchida for their assistance in the survey, and Wataru Mukaimine and Futoshi Ujiie for their advice in the analysis. Finally, we would like to thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English language editing.Disclosure statementThe authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Aquatic Insects is an international journal publishing original research on the systematics, biology, and ecology of aquatic and semi-aquatic insects.
The subject of the research is aquatic and semi-aquatic insects, comprising taxa of four primary orders, the Ephemeroptera, Odonata, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera but also aquatic and semi-aquatic families of Hemiptera, Coleoptera, and Diptera, as well as specific representatives of Hymenoptera , Lepidoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera , and Neuroptera that occur in lotic and lentic habitats during part of their life cycle. Studies on other aquatic Hexapoda (i.e., Collembola) will be only accepted if space permits. Papers on other aquatic Arthropoda (e.g., Crustacea) will not be considered, except for those closely related to aquatic and semi-aquatic insects (e.g., water mites as insect parasites).
The topic of the research may include a wide range of biological fields. Taxonomic revisions and descriptions of individual species will be accepted especially if additional information is included on habitat preferences, species co-existing, behavior, phenology, collecting methods, etc., that are of general interest to an international readership. Descriptions based on single specimens are discouraged.
Detailed studies on morphology, physiology, behavior, and phenology of aquatic insects in all stadia of their life cycle are welcome as well as the papers with molecular and phylogenetic analyses, especially if they discuss evolutionary processes of the biological, ecological, and faunistic formation of the group.