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Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne 1952

Description

Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne, 1952 (Fig. 4)

Material examined: 1♂, Kalyani Revu Waterfall (13°2'49.2''N, 78°42'20.16''E), 3.xii.2022, Leg.: J. Deepa & S. Shankar, Reg. No. FBRC /ZSI/INS/3530.

Distribution: Oriental (India [AP, TS, UK], Sri Lanka); Palaearctic (China) (Ghosh & Nilsson, 2012; Sayali et al., 2018; Deepa et al., 2022a).

Remarks. Copelatus sociennus was reported from Bangalore, Karnataka as C. bangalorensis (Vazirani, 1970), later synonymized with C. sociennus (Sayali et al., 2018) based on the type from China and India.

Notes

Published as part of Shankar, Shiva, Kumar, Devadoss, Deepa, Jaiswal, Madasamy, Karuthapandi, Jadhav, Shrikant & Kunte, Kalyani B., 2023, Aquatic beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Koundinya wildlife sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, India, pp. 449-467 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (3) on page 452, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.3.449, http://zenodo.org/record/17022023

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
FBRC
Event date
2022-12-03
Verbatim event date
2022-12-03
Scientific name authorship
Balfour-Browne
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Copelatus
Species
sociennus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Copelatus sociennus Balfour-Browne, 1952 sec. Shankar, Kumar, Deepa, Madasamy, Jadhav & Kunte, 2023

References

  • Ghosh, S. K. & Nilsson, A. N. (2012) Catalogue of the diving beetles of India and adjacent countries (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Skorvnopparn, Umel, Supplement, 3, 1-77.
  • Sayali, D. S., Hemant, V. G. & Jiri, H. (2018) Copelatus Erichson, 1832 from Maharashtra, India, with description of three new species and notes on other taxa of the genus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Copelatinae). Zootaxa, 4459 (2), 235-260. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.2
  • Deepa, J., Kumar, D., Shiva, S. & Madasamy, K. (2022 a) Diversity and distribution of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Kawal Tiger Reserve, Telangana, India. Species, 23 (71), 277-284.