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

We describe a new subterranean species of Exocelina diving beetles from the Malay Peninsula. Almost all of the 182 species of that genus are epigean and distributed in New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia, but there is one epigean species in China. The discovery of a species on the Malay Peninsula fills that distribution gap to some degree.

本研究记述了马来半岛地区的一种隶属于Exocelina属的地下生潜水甲虫新种。该属目前已记载的182个物种几乎均为地表栖息类群，分布于新几内亚、澳大利亚及新喀里多尼亚，仅中国分布有1种地表栖息类群。此次在马来半岛发现该属地下生新种，在一定程度上填补了该属的分布空白。