title: 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).
abstract: 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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balke
authors.affiliation: Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ruthensteiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Universitas Cendrawasih, Jayapura, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Evie Lilly
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Warikar
authors.affiliation: Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Neven
authors.affiliation: Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hendrich
keywords: DNA sequence data; Dytiscidae; Limbodessus; New Guinea; high resolution photography; minimalistic descriptions; new species; μCT scans