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Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873

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 : 12

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 Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873
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Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873 View in CoL

Amphiops mater Sharp, 1873: 62 View in CoL ; Balfour-Browne 1939c: 304, figs. 9, 10b; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 161; Jia 2014: 8, figs., 3A–E, 5G, H; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 37; Liu et al. 2021a: 48; Przewoźny 2022: 10; Deb et al. 2023: 24047; Shankar et al. 2024: 459.

Amphiops pedestris Sharp, 1890: 354 View in CoL ; Biswas 2000: 102; Ghosh et al. 2000: 48; Khan & Ghosh 2001: 72; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 456; Ghosh & Hegde 2013a: 64; Das et al. 2014: 458; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Ghosh & Das 2016: 436; Devi et al. 2017: 10; Ghosh et al. 2011: 10; Ghosh et al. 2015a: 107; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 117; Sonali et al. 2022: 341.

Amphiops mater ssp. pedestris : Balfour-Browne 1939c: 304; Hansen 1999a: 106; Ghosh et al. 2023: 161.

Type locality: Japan, Honshu (Hyogo), Kyushu (Nagasaki) ( Jia 2014).

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Sirmour, Dharamshala, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Manipur, Maharashtra (Pune), Odisha (Chilika Lake), Tamil Nadu, Tripura (Rudrasagar, Lambuchara, Amarpur), Puducherry (Karaikal), and West Bengal (Alipurduar, Kolkata, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, Sagar Island, Bhibhutibhusan Wildlife Sanctuary, Buxa Tiger Reserve).

Global distribution: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Hydrophilidae

SubFamily

Hydrophilinae

Tribe

Amphiopini

Genus

Amphiops

Specimens