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Hypnoidus tilloae Stibick 1980

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Zoology, St. Xavier's College (Empowered Autonomous Institute), Mumbai- 400 001, Maharashtra, India. & Department of Zoology, K. J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, Vidyavihar, Mumbai- 400 077, Maharashtra, India.
  • 2. Department of Zoology, K. J. Somaiya College of Science & Commerce, Vidyavihar, Mumbai- 400 077, Maharashtra, India.

Description

Hypnoidus tilloae Stibick, 1980

Hypnoidus tilloae Stibick, 1980: 264 (original description; published type locality: Rapti); Dolin & Cate, 2001: 128 (re-examined Holotype; “Nush(?)”); Cate, 2007: 155 (catalogue; “UP” as India: Uttaranchal, Uttar Pradesh or “Rapti River”); Gupta et al., 2018: 501 (catalogue; “2B” as India: Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand); Platia & Sechi, 2022: 380 (checklist; “Rapti River (India-Nepal)”).

Type Locality. Rapti River *.

Type Depository. Holotype, F (NHML).

General Distribution. Rapti River*.

Remark. Known only from a single female specimen. The species was described from a vague locality, which could refer to any area around the Rapti River, encompassing parts of Nepal and the northern states of India. Until additional material becomes available to confirm its presence, this species is not considered to occur in India.

Notes

Published as part of Parekar, Harshad & Patwardhan, Amol, 2025, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamilies Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Negastriinae, Tetralobinae, and Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India, pp. 151-203 in Zootaxa 5679 (2) on page 191, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5679.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16984053

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/664B817F0F3CFFC1A09923A460F9FDB0

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5679.2.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/16984053 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9A72F9070F14FFE9A00E2332615AFFD7 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/433583E2-2321-477E-AD5D-A8544AC6CC9B (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/664B817F0F3CFFC1A09923A460F9FDB0 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/293645392 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/312134/taxon/664B817F0F3CFFC1A09923A460F9FDB0.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHML
Scientific name authorship
Stibick
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Hypnoidus
Species
tilloae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hypnoidus tilloae Stibick, 1980 sec. Parekar & Patwardhan, 2025

References

  • Stibick, J. N. L. (1980) A revision of the Hypnoidinae of the world (Col. Elateridae). Part 4. The Hypnoidinae of India. Eos, Revista Espanola de Entomologia, 54 (1979), 247-273.
  • Dolin, V. G. & Cate, P. C. (2001) Die Arten der Gattung Hypnoidus Dillwyn, 1829, aus dem Himalaya (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osterreichischer Entomologen, 53, 121-136.
  • Cate, P. (2007) Elateridae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 4. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 89-209.
  • Gupta, D., Chandra, K., Das, P. & Ghosh, J. (2018) Insecta: Coleoptera. In: Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Gopi, K. C., Tripathy, B. & Kumar, V. (Eds.), Faunal Diversity of Indian Himalaya. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 399-590.
  • Platia, G. & Sechi, D. (2022) New species of the genus Hypnoidus Dillwyn, 1829 from India and Nepal, with two new generic combinations and an updated catalogue (Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateridae: Hypnoidini). Vernate, 41, 375-382.