Published July 31, 2015 | Version v1
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Hydrophilus Geoffroy 1762

  • 1. Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Biology, Aksaray University, Aksaray, Turkey;
  • 2. Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Description

Genus Hydrophilus Geoffroy

So far, one species has been recorded from Pakistan: Hydrophilus senegalensis (Percheron) (Hansen 1999, 2004; Darilmaz and Ahmed 2009). The species is recorded here also for Pakistan.

Notes

Published as part of Darilmaz, Mustafa C. & Ahmed, Zubair, 2015, Aquatic Coleoptera from Pakistan: faunistic and zoogeographical contribution (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Dytiscidae: Hydrophilidae), pp. 149-162 in Journal of Natural History 50 on page 157, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059515, http://zenodo.org/record/3991843

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Geoffroy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Hydrophilus
Species
senegalensis
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrophilus Geoffroy, 1762 sec. Darilmaz & Ahmed, 2015

References

  • Hansen M. 1999. World catalogue of insects. Volume 2. Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). Stenstrup: Apollo Books.
  • Hansen M. 2004. Hydrophiloidea. In: Lobl I, Smetana A, editors. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Stenstrup: Apollo Books; p. 36 - 68.
  • Darilmaz MC, Ahmed Z. 2009. A new record for the fauna of Pakistan: Hydaticus leander (Rossi, 1790) (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Turk J Zool. 33: 105 - 106.