Data from: Two new species of Limbodessus diving beetles from New Guinea - short verbal descriptions flanked by online content (digital photography, μCT scans, drawings and DNA sequence data)

Background: To date only one species of Limbodessus diving beetles has been reported from the Island of New Guinea, L. compactus (Clark, 1862), which is widerspread in the Australian region. New information: We describe two new species of microendemic New Guinea Limbodessus and use a compact descriptive format flanked by enriched online content in wiki powered species pages. Limbodessus baliem sp.n. is described from ca. 1,600 m altitude in the Baliem Valley of Papua and Limbodessus alexanderi sp.n. from >3,000 m altitude north of Sugapa, Papua. Based on our analysis, we also transfer three species from other genera to Limbodessus Guignot, 1939, with the following changes: Limbodessus deflectus (Ordish, 1966), new combination; Limbodessus leveri (J. Balfour-Browne, 1944), new combination; and Limbodessus plicatus (Sharp, 1882), new combination.

背景：截至目前，新几内亚岛仅报道过1种Limbodessus属潜水龙虱，即Limbodessus compactus（Clark, 1862），该种在澳大利亚区域广泛分布。新信息：本研究记述了2种新几内亚微特有Limbodessus属潜水龙虱新种，并采用简洁的记述格式，辅以维基驱动物种页面中的丰富在线内容。其中，Limbodessus baliem sp.n. 采自巴布亚省巴厘姆谷海拔约1600米处，Limbodessus alexanderi sp.n. 采自巴布亚省苏加帕以北海拔大于3000米的区域。基于本研究的分析结果，我们还将3个物种从其他属移入Limbodessus Guignot, 1939，具体分类变动如下：Limbodessus deflectus（Ordish, 1966），新组合；Limbodessus leveri（J. Balfour-Browne, 1944），新组合；以及Limbodessus plicatus（Sharp, 1882），新组合。