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Enochrus (Methydrus) esuriens ( Walker, 1858 )

Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5546 (1), pp. 1-92 : 36

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 Enochrus (Methydrus) esuriens ( Walker, 1858 )
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Enochrus (Methydrus) esuriens ( Walker, 1858) View in CoL

Philhydrus esuriens Walker, 1858: 209 .

Pylophilus nigriceps Motschulsky, 1860a: 46 View in CoL .

Pylophilus ornaticeps Sharp, 1884: 454 .

Pylophilus pullus Fauvel, 1883: 354 .

Enochrus (Lumetus) esuriens View in CoL : Balfour-Browne 1945: 129, fig. 4a; Sato 1977: 200; Ghosh et al. 2010: 95; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 331; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 389; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Chakradhari & Tiwari 2022: 15; Sonali et al. 2022: 342.

Enochrus (Methydrus) esuriens View in CoL : d’Orchymont 1928: 112; Satô 1972b: 49; Hebauer, 1995a: 10; Hansen 1999a: 181; Hansen 2004: 51; Hendrich et al. 2004: 126 View Cited Treatment ; Jia & Wang 2010: 373, figs., 21, 22; Short 2010b: 305, fig. 6; Jaiswal 2012: 39; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 59; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Ghosh 2022: 490; Ghosh & Gupta, 2022: 116; Przewoźny 2022: 25; Ghosh et al. 2023: 162.

Enochrus esuriens View in CoL : Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 158; Khan & Ghosh 2001: 71; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 41; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 454; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 411; Ghosh 2011a: 23; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Ghosh 2014: 57; Jaiswal et al. 2013: 24; Das et al. 2014: 458; Devi et al. 2014a: 8; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Jaiswal et al. 2014: 97; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Devi et al. 2017: 9; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Liu et al. 2021a: 43; Liu et al. 2021b: 302; Deb et al. 2023: 24047; Shankar et al. 2024: 460.

Type locality: Sri Lanka ( Hansen 1999a).

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (Nellore), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Chamba, Khajjar), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Karnataka (Baelagum), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Keibul–Lamjo National Park, Imphal, Senapati), Maharashtra (Pune), Odisha (Satkosia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Punjab, Puducherry ( Karaikal), Sikkim (Jorethang, Rongpo), Telangana (Adilabad, Hyderabad, Durgam Cheruvu), Uttarakhand (Bageshwar, Baijnath), Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Aligarh, Balia, Varanasi, Rampur, Meerut, Mirzapur, Shahjahanpur, Sultanpur, Surhatal Wildlife Sanctuary, Sandi BS), and West Bengal (Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, South 24 Parganas, Sagar Island).

Global distribution: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Fiji, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Philippines, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Vanuatu.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Hydrophilidae

SubFamily

Enochrinae

Genus

Enochrus

SubGenus

Methydrus

Specimens