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Sternolophus decens Zaitzev, 1909

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 : 32

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scientific name

 Sternolophus decens Zaitzev, 1909
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Sternolophus decens Zaitzev, 1909 View in CoL

Sternolophus (s. str.) decens Zaitzev, 1909: 231 View in CoL ; d’Orchymont 1911: 58; Balfour-Browne 1951: 217; Hebauer 1997b: 267; Hansen 1999a: 207; Hebauer 2002a: 25; Fikáček et al. 2010: 153; Short 2010a: 26–27, 29; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 52; Nasserzadeh & Komarek 2017: 213, figs., 2, 5, 11, 16, 22, 35, 47, 67; Ghosh et al. 2021: 616; Sonali et al. 2022: 342; Sonali et al. 2024: 424.

Type locality: Iran, Bazman, 90 km. North of Iranshahr , Sistan & Baluchestan Province ( Nasserzadeh & Komarek 2017).

Distribution in India: Bihar, Himachal Pradesh (Kangra, Dharamshala, Palampur, Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Jharkhand (Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary, Ranchi), Madhya Pradesh (Indore), Maharashtra (Pune), Uttarakhand (Almora), and Tamil Nadu.

Global distribution: Djibouti, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Balfour-Browne, J. (1951) Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Hydraenidae, Hydrophilidae. In: Expedition to SouthWest Arabia 1937 - 1938. British Museum (Natural History, London, pp. 179 - 220, pls. 10 - 11.

d'Orchymont, A. (1911) Contribution a l'etude des genres Sternolophus Solier, Hydrophilus Leach, Hydrous Leach (Fam Hydrophilida). Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 19, 53 - 72, pl. 6.

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

Hebauer, F. (1997 b) Annotated checklist of the Hydrophilidae and Helophoridae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Arabian Peninsula with a description of a new genus and species. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 16, 255 - 276.

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

Nasserzadeh, H. & Komarek, A. (2017) Taxonomic revision of the water scavenger beetle genus Sternolophus Solier, 1834 (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa, 4282 (2), 201 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4282.2.1

Short, A. E. Z. (2010 a) Phylogeny, evolution, and classification of the giant water scavenger beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae: Hydrophilini: Hydrophilina). Systematics and Biodiversity, 8, 17 - 37. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 14772000903529375

Sonali, S., Ghosh, S. K., Basu, P. & Gupta, D. (2022) Water beetles of Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary, Jharkhand, India, with new state records (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Noteridae and Hydrophilidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 122 (3), 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.26515 / rzsi / v 122 / i 3 / 2022 / 172392

Sonali, S., Ghosh, S. K., Basu, P. & Gupta, D. (2024) Water beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Dhurwa Dam, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India with new state records. Indian Journal of Ecology, 51 (2), 421 - 426. https: // doi. org / 10.55362 / IJE / 2024 / 4253

Zaitzev, F. A. (1909) Analytische Uebersicht der mir bekannten Arten der Gattung Sternolophus Solier nebst Bemerkungen uber die anderen Arten dieser Gattung (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Russkoe Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 8, 228 - 233. [1908, https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12186478]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Hydrophilidae

SubFamily

Hydrophilinae

Tribe

Hydrophilini

Genus

Sternolophus

Specimens