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Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps ( Fabricius, 1801 )

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 : 14

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scientific name

 Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps ( Fabricius, 1801 )
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Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps ( Fabricius, 1801) View in CoL

Hydrophilus nigriceps Fabricius, 1801: 254 .

Paraberosus melanocephalus Kuwert, 1890a: 113 View in CoL .

Berosus immaculicollis Fairmaire, 1892: 88 View in CoL .

Berosus (s.str.) nigriceps View in CoL : d’Orchymont 1933: 310; d’Orchymont 1937c: 40; Schödl 1993: 213, figs., 11a, b, 42; Hansen 1999a: 90; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 43; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Fikáček et al. 2010: 137, pl. 2; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 38; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 390; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Ghosh et al. 2021: 614; Przewoźny 2022: 11.

Type locality: East India [“ India orientali”] ( Schödl 1993).

Distribution in India: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh (Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Madhya Pradesh (Panna National Park), Odisha ( Chilika Lake ), Rajasthan ( Bharatpur , Sikar), Sikkim (Rongpo), Tamil Nadu ( Tharangambadi “ Tranquebar ”), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Mussorie), and Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Etah, Rampur, Aligarh, Hardoi).

Global distribution: Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde Island, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

d'Orchymont, A. (1933) Contribution a l'etude des Palpicornia VIII. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 73, 271 - 314, pl. 5.

d'Orchymont, A. (1937 c) Coleoptera Palpicornia from the Khewra Gorge, Salt Range, Punjab. Records of the Indian Museum, 39, 33 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.26515 / rzsi / v 39 / i 1 / 1937 / 162302

Fabricius, J. C. (1801) Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis, synonimis. locis, observationibus, descriptonibus. Tomus I. Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae, xxiv + 506 pp.

Fairmaire, L. (1892) Coleopteres d'Obock. Troisieme partie. Revue d'Entomologie, 11, 77 - 127. [https: // biostor. org / reference / 70849]

Fikacek, M., Gentili, E. & Short, A. E. Z. (2010) Order Coleoptera, family Hydrophilidae. In: Harten A. van (Ed.), Arthropod Fauna of the United Arab Emirates. Vol. 3. Dar Al Ummah Publishing, Distribution & Advertising, Abu Dhabi, pp. 135 - 165.

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

Ghosh, S. K., Chandra, K., Gupta, D., Ghosh, J., Das, P., Bhunia, D. & Dutta, S. (2021) Insecta: Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Himachal Pradesh. State Fauna Series, 26 (Part - 1). Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 613 - 618.

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

Kazmi, S. I. & Ramamurthy, V. V. (2004) Coleoptera (Insecta) fauna from the Indian Thar Desert, Rajasthan. Zoos' Print Journal, 19 (4), 1447 - 1448. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / jott. 6817.14.12.22260 - 22269

Kuwert, A. (1890 a) Bestimmungs - Tabellen der europaischen Coleopteren. XIX. Heft. Hydrophilidae. I. Abteilung: Hydrophilini. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins in Brunn, 28, 1 - 121. [1889, also issued as reprint: 121 pp. Brunn].

Mukhopadhyay, P. & Sengupta, S. (2003) Insecta: Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophilidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Sikkim. State Fauna Series 9. Vol. 3. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 35 - 44. [https: // faunaofindia. nic. in / PDFVolumes / sfs / 046 / index. pdf]

Mukhopadhyay, P. (2015) Insecta: Coleoptera: Polyphaga: Hydrophiloidea: Hydrophilidae. In: Director (Ed.), Fauna of Uttar Pradesh. State Fauna Series 22. Vol. 2. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, pp. 385 - 393.

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)

Schodl, S. (1993) Revision der gattung Berosus Leach 3. Teil: Die palaarktischen und orientalischen Arten der Untergattung Berosus s. str. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 63, 189 - 233. [https: // www. zobodat. at / pdf / KOR _ 63 _ 1993 _ 0189 - 0233. pdf]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Hydrophilidae

SubFamily

Hydrophilinae

Tribe

Berosini

Genus

Berosus

SubGenus

Berosus

Specimens