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Berosus (Enoplurus) indicus ( Motschulsky, 1861 )

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 : 16

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 Berosus (Enoplurus) indicus ( Motschulsky, 1861 )
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Berosus (Enoplurus) indicus ( Motschulsky, 1861) View in CoL

Enoplurus indicus Motschulsky, 1861: 110 View in CoL .

Berosus indicus View in CoL : Régimbart, 1902b: 473; Vazirani 1953: 427; Roy 1982: 57; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 163; Biswas 2000: 102; Ghosh et al. 2000: 49; Khan & Ghosh 2001: 74; Biswas 2002: 74; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 42; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 457; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Nandi et al. 2004: 54; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 413; Ghosh 2011a: 24; Jaiswal 2012: 39; Jaiswal et al. 2013: 25; Ghosh & Hegde 2013a: 65; Das et al. 2014: 458; Ghosh 2014: 58; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Jaiswal et al. 2014: 96; Ghosh et al. 2015a: 107; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Ghosh & Das 2016: 436; Devi et al. 2017: 10; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2020: 230; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Shankar et al. 2024: 459; Sheth et al. 2024: 24862.

Berosus (Enoplurus) indicus View in CoL : Zaitzev 1908a: 356; d’Orchymont 1937a: 7, fig. 1; Satô 1977: 202; Schödl 1992: 149, figs., 5a, b; Hansen 1999a: 78; Hansen 2004: 47; Mukhopadhyay 2010: 333; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 390; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 39; Ghosh et al. 2021: 614; Przewoźny 2022: 12.

Type locality: Sri Lanka “Ceylon”, Nuwara Eliya ( Schödl 1992).

Distribution in India: Andhra Pradesh (East Godavari, West Godavari, Nellore), Bihar (Pusa, Kabar Lake, Bhagalpur), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, Goa (Margao), Haryana, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary, Solan, Kuthar), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Karnataka (Belgaum, North Kanara ), Kerala (Malabar), Maharashtra (Pune, Nashik , Satara, Sindhudurg), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Bishupur, Churachandpur, Imphal), Odisha ( Chilika Lake ), Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan (Bharatpur, Jodhpur, Kailana Lake), Sikkim (Jorethang, Rongpo), Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Salem), Telangana (Hyderabad: Durgam Chervuvu), Tripura (Sonamura, Rudrasagar, South Tripura, Sephaijala, Lembuchara), Uttarakhand (Barkot, Tehri Garwal), Uttar Pradesh (Allahabad, Varanasi, Shahjahanpur, Meerut, Rampur, Aligarh, Sultanpur, Hardoi, Lucknow, Ramnagar), and West Bengal (Alipurduar, Kolkata, Berhampur, Murshidabad, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve , Sagar Island; Buxa Tiger Reserve).

Global distribution: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan.

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Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Hydrophilidae

SubFamily

Hydrophilinae

Tribe

Berosini

Genus

Berosus

SubGenus

Enoplurus

Specimens