JaŁoszyŃski PaweŁ
Museum of Natural History, University of Wrocław, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335 Wrocław, Poland..
Zootaxa. 2018 Mar 20;4399(1):141-145. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.12.
Clidicus Laporte, 1832 currently comprises 27 species distributed in India (Karnataka, Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra), Malaysia (Sabah, Sarawak), Laos, Vietnam, the Philippines (Mindanao), China (Hainan) and Australia (Queensland). Some species have conspicuously large adults reaching 8.5 mm, and they represent the largest known Scydmaeninae. Species of Clidicus were relatively poorly known until recently, when Orousset (2014) revised a large portion of this genus and described several new species. Other major studies include Besuchet (1971), who described Sri Lankan species, Jałoszyński et al. (2003) who recorded four new species from Vietnam and Laos, Jałoszyński (2009) with the first description of a Philippine species, and Zhou Li (2015), who discovered the first species in China. Another new species, representing the second Clidicus occurring in the Philippines, is described below.
克里迪科斯步甲属（Clidicus Laporte，1832）目前包含27个物种，分布于印度（卡纳塔克邦、泰米尔纳德邦）、斯里兰卡、印度尼西亚（爪哇岛、加里曼丹岛、苏门答腊岛）、马来西亚（沙巴、砂拉越）、老挝、越南、菲律宾（棉兰老岛）、中国（海南）和澳大利亚（昆士兰）。一些物种的成虫体型显著较大，可达8.5毫米，它们是已知最大的球甲亚科昆虫。直到最近奥鲁塞特（2014年）修订了该属的大部分物种并描述了几个新物种之前，克里迪科斯步甲属的物种相对鲜为人知。其他主要研究包括描述斯里兰卡物种的贝叙谢（1971年）、记录了来自越南和老挝的四个新物种的亚沃申斯基等人（2003年）、首次描述菲律宾物种的亚沃申斯基（2009年）以及在中国发现首个物种的周丽（2015年）。下文描述了另一个新物种，它是菲律宾发现的第二个克里迪科斯步甲属物种。
