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Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps
Authors/Creators
- 1. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India
- 2. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & University of Calcutta, Kolkata, 35, Ballygunge Circular Rd., Ballygunge, Kolkata - 700019, West Bengal & shipra. aquaticbeetles @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0000 - 8416 - 9046
- 3. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & sujit. coleoptera @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9675 - 9705
- 4. Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & priyankajan 03 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0129 - 6838
- 5. Freshwater Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India & priyankajan 03 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0129 - 6838
- 6. Former Director, Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata - 700053, West Bengal, India & kailas 611 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9076 - 5442
Description
Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps (Fabricius, 1801)
Hydrophilus nigriceps Fabricius, 1801: 254.
Paraberosus melanocephalus Kuwert, 1890a: 113.
Berosus immaculicollis Fairmaire, 1892: 88.
Berosus (s.str.) nigriceps: d’Orchymont 1933: 310; d’Orchymont 1937c: 40; Schödl 1993: 213, figs., 11a, b, 42; Hansen 1999a: 90; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 43; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Fikáček et al. 2010: 137, pl. 2; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 38; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 390; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Ghosh et al. 2021: 614; Przewoźny 2022: 11.
Type locality: East India [“ India orientali”] (Schödl 1993).
Distribution in India: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh (Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Madhya Pradesh (Panna National Park), Odisha (Chilika Lake), Rajasthan (Bharatpur, Sikar), Sikkim (Rongpo), Tamil Nadu (Tharangambadi “ Tranquebar ”), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Mussorie), and Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Etah, Rampur, Aligarh, Hardoi).
Global distribution: Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde Island, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
Notes
Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 5546 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438
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Additional details
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Fabricius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Hydrophilidae
- Genus
- Berosus
- Species
- nigriceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps (Fabricius, 1801) sec. Gupta, Sonali, Ghosh, Das, Jaiswal & Chandra, 2024
References
- Fabricius, J. C. (1801) Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis, synonimis. locis, observationibus, descriptonibus. Tomus I. Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae, xxiv + 506 pp.
- Kuwert, A. (1890 a) Bestimmungs - Tabellen der europaischen Coleopteren. XIX. Heft. Hydrophilidae. I. Abteilung: Hydrophilini. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brunn, 28, 1-121. [1889, also issued as reprint: 121 pp. Brunn].
- Fairmaire, L. (1892) Coleopteres d'Obock. Troisieme partie. Revue d'Entomologie, 11, 77-127. [https://biostor.org/reference/70849]
- d'Orchymont, A. (1933) Contribution a l'etude des Palpicornia VIII. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 73, 271-314, pl. 5.
- d'Orchymont, A. (1937 c) Coleoptera Palpicornia from the Khewra Gorge, Salt Range, Punjab. Records of the Indian Museum, 39, 33-41. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v39/i1/1937/162302
- Schodl, S. (1993) Revision der gattung Berosus Leach 3. Teil: Die palaarktischen und orientalischen Arten der Untergattung Berosus s. str. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 63, 189-233. [https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/KOR_63_1993_0189-0233.pdf]
- Hansen, M. (1999 a) World Catalogue of Insects. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books Aps., Stenstrup, 416 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004629042_004
- Mukhopadhyay, P. & Sengupta, S. (2003) Insecta: Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophilidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Sikkim. State Fauna Series 9. Vol. 3. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 35 - 44. [https://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/sfs/046/index.pdf]
- Kazmi, S. I. & Ramamurthy, V. V. (2004) Coleoptera (Insecta) fauna from the Indian Thar Desert, Rajasthan. Zoos' Print Journal, 19 (4), 1447-1448. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.6817.14.12.22260-22269
- Fikacek, M., Gentili, E. & Short, A. E. Z. (2010) Order Coleoptera, family Hydrophilidae. In: Harten A. van (Ed.), Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 3. Dar Al Ummah Publishing, Distribution & Advertising, Abu Dhabi, pp. 135 - 165.
- Fikacek, M., Angus, R. B., Gentili, E., Jia, F. - L., Minoshima, Y. N., Prokin, A., Przewozny, M. & Ryndevich, S. K. (2015 c) Hydrophilidae. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 37 - 76. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004296855
- Mukhopadhyay, P. (2015) Insecta: Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Uttar Pradesh. State Fauna Series 22. Vol. 2. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 385 - 393.
- Ghosh, S. K., Das, P. & Mitra, B. (2016) Studies on the fresh water aquatic beetle fauna (Coleoptera: Insecta) of Chilika lake and its adjoining areas and their colonization in brackish water. International Journal of Fauna and Biological Studies, 3 (6), 19-24. [https://www.faunajournal.com/archives/2016/vol3issue6/PartA/3-5-28-613.pdf]
- Ghosh, S. K., Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Ghosh, J., Das, P., Bhunia, D. & Dutta, S. (2021) Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Himachal Pradesh. State Fauna Series, 26 (Part - 1). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 613-618.
- Przewozny, M. (2022) Catalogue of Palearctic Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Internet Version. 1 January 2022. Avialable from: http://www.waterbeetles.eu/documents/PAL_CAT_Hydrophiloidea_2022.pdf (accessed 7 August 2024)