Armostus optatus Sharp, 1890

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 : 50

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14640078
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scientific name	Armostus optatus Sharp, 1890
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Armostus optatus Sharp, 1890 View in CoL

Armostus optatus Sharp, 1890: 359 View in CoL ; d’Orchymont 1942b: 9; Hansen 1999a: 271; Hebauer 2002a: 38; Hansen 2004: 61; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 65; Przewoźny 2022: 30.

Type locality: Sri Lanka [“Ceylon”], Dikoya ( Hansen 1999a).

Distribution in India: Uttarakhand (Haldwani: Kumaon, Dehradun) and Madhya Pradesh (Barway).

Global distribution: India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

d'Orchymont, A. (1942 b) Revision du genre Armostus Sharp (Coleoptera Hydrophilidae Cercyonini). Bulletin du Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, 18 (15), 1 - 10. https: // biblio. naturalsciences. be / rbins-publications / bulletin-of-the-royal-belgian-natural-history-museum / 18 - 1942 / irscnb _

Fikacek, M., Angus, R. B., Gentili, E., Jia, F. - L., Minoshima, Y. N., Prokin, A., Przewozny, M. & Ryndevich, S. K. (2015 c) Hydrophilidae. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 37 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004296855

Hansen, M. (1999 a) World Catalogue of Insects. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Apollo Books Aps., Stenstrup, 416 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004629042 _ 004

Hansen, M. (2004) Family Hydrophilidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea, eds. I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 44 - 68.

Hebauer, F. (2002 a) Hydrophilidae of Northern India and Southern Himalaya (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Acta Coleopterologica, 18, 3 - 72.

Przewozny, M. (2022) Catalogue of Palearctic Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera). Internet Version. 1 January 2022. Avialable from: http: // www. waterbeetles. eu / documents / PAL _ CAT _ Hydrophiloidea _ 2022. pdf (accessed 7 August 2024)

Sharp, D. S. (1890) On some aquatic Coleoptera from Ceylon. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 38 (2), 339 - 359. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1890. tb 03026. x

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
SuperFamily	Hydrophiloidea
Family	Hydrophilidae
SubFamily	Sphaeridiinae
Tribe	Megasternini
SubTribe	Megasternina
Genus	Armostus