Paroosternum sorex ( Sharp, 1874 )

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 : 55

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scientific name	Paroosternum sorex ( Sharp, 1874 )
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Paroosternum sorex ( Sharp, 1874) View in CoL

Cercyon sorex Sharp, 1874: 418 View in CoL .

Oosternum sorex : Sharp 1884: 460.

Oosternum horni d’Orchymont, 1914: 326 View in CoL ; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 452; Devi et al. 2017: 8.

Paroosternum sorex View in CoL : Hansen 1999c: 242; Hansen 1999a: 301; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 73; Przewoźny 2022: 35.

Type locality: Japan ( Hansen 1999a).

Distribuion in India: Manipur (Thoubal), Madhya Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu.

Global distribution: China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and United States of America (Hawaiian Islands).

References

d'Orchymont, A. (1914) H. Sauter's Formosa - Ausbeute: Hydrophilidae (Col.) II. Entomologische Mitteilungen, 3, 322 - 328. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 5086

Devi, M. B., Devi, O. S. & Wahengbam, L. (2017) Checklist of the aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) of Manipur. Journal of Zoological Sciences, 5 (2), 1 - 12. [https: // www. rroij. com / open-access / checklist-of-the-aquatic-beetles-coleoptera-of-manipur. pdf]

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 c) Taxonomic changes in the genera Oosternum Sharp and Paroosternum Scott (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Entomologica Scandinavica, 30, 241 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 187631200 X 00084

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

Mukhopadhyay, P. & Sengupta, S. (2004) Insecta: Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Manipur. State Fauna Series 10. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 449 - 458. [https: // faunaofindia. nic. in / PDFVolumes / sfs / 050 / index. pdf]

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. (1874) Some additions to the coleopterous fauna of Japan. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 22 (4), 417 - 422. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1874. tb 00171. x

Sharp, D. S. (1884) The water - beetles of Japan. The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 32 (4), 439 - 464. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1884. tb 01616. 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	Paroosternum