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Enochrus (Methydrus) natalensis

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

Enochrus (Methydrus) natalensis (Gemminger & Harold, 1868)

Hydrobius natalensis Gemminger & Harold, 1868: 480.

Philydrus pumilio Sharp, 1903: 8.

Enochrus (Lumetus) natalensis: d’Orchymont 1919a: 155.

Enochrus (Methydrus) natalensis: d’Orchymont 1948: 731; Hansen 1999a: 184; Hansen 2004: 51; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 60.

Type locality: South Africa, Caffraria, Oranje River.

Distribution in India: The precise locality of this species within India remains uncertain based on the available literature. However, Hansen (1999a) reported the species’ presence in the country.

Global distribution: Australia, Egypt, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mali, Mascarene Islands, Namibia, Portugal, Rwanda, Samoa, Seychelles, Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Uganda, and Zambia.

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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/14387438

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gemminger & Harold
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Enochrus
Species
natalensis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Enochrus (Methydrus) natalensis (Gemminger, 1868) sec. Gupta, Sonali, Ghosh, Das, Jaiswal & Chandra, 2024

References

  • Gemminger, M. & Harold, B. de (1868) n. k. In: Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. II. Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydrophilidae, Staphylinidae, Pselaphidae, Gnostidae, Paussidae, Scydmaenidae, Silphidae, Trichopterygidae, Scaphidiidae. E. H. Gummi, Monachii, pp. 425-752 + [6]. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 10174177] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.9089
  • Sharp, D. S. (1903) Water-beetles (Dytiscidae & Hydrophilidae) of the Swedish Zoological expedition to Egypt and the White Nile. No. 10. In: Jagerskiold, L. A. (Ed.), Results of the Swedish Zoological expedition to Egypt and the White Nile 1901 under the direction of L. A. Jagerskiold. Part I. Library of the Royal University of Uppsala, Uppsala, pp. 1-10.
  • d'Orchymont, A. (1919 a) Contribution a l'etude des sous - familles des Sphaeridiinae et des Hydrophilinae (Col. Hydrophilidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 88, 105-168. [https://biostor.org/reference/59111] https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1919.12279923
  • d'Orchymont, A. (1948) Report on the Palpicornia (Coleoptera), Mr. Omer - Cooper's Investigation of the Abyssinian Fresh Waters (Hugh Scott Expedition). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 117 (1947 - 48), 716-741. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00552.x
  • 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
  • Hansen, M. (2004) Family Hydrophilidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea, eds. I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 44 - 68.
  • 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