Orectochilus (Patrus) oblongiusculus Régimbart, 1886

Kharkongor, Ilona Jacinta, Saikia, Uttam, Khynriam, Dimos & Saikia, Bhaskar, 2023, Current status of faunal diversity of Siju Cave, South Garo Hills, Meghalaya, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 123 (3), pp. 283-303 : 297

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https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v123/i3/2023/172670

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scientific name

Orectochilus (Patrus) oblongiusculus Régimbart, 1886
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33. Orectochilus (Patrus) oblongiusculus Régimbart, 1886

1886. Orectochilus oblongiusculus Régimbart, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. , 6(6): 262.

Material examined: 5 ex. Siju Cave (~100m- 150m inside the Cave), Siju village, South Garo Hills District , Meghalaya, 25 o 21.061’N, 90 o 41.006’E, 119m, 03.i.2020, coll. I. J. Kharkongor & party, Reg. No. I / COL /NERC-219. Remarks: The specimens were collected from about 100- 150m inside the Cave. Though this is an epigean, its occurrence inside the Siju Cave forms the first record of an aquatic coleopteran from a cave ecosystem and the first record of the species from Siju Cave itself GoogleMaps .

COL

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Gyrinidae

Genus

Orectochilus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Gyrinidae

Genus

Orectochilus

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