Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 127

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244881

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13245262

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scientific name

Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890
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Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890 View in CoL

Helochares anchoralis Sharp, 1890: 352 View in CoL ; d’Orchymont, 1927: 249; Fernando, 1961: 23; 1964: 87; Hebauer, 1995b: 4; Hansen, 1999: 164, and references therein.

Material examined. – 2 specimens - Sungai Buloh – 1 ex., mud pool, 15 Nov.1990, coll. ZRC staff ( ZRC). Pulau Ubin 1 ex., 12 Nov.1990, ZRC.6.15657, coll. K. Lim ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, West Malaysia, Indonesia [Sumatra, Bali] Cambodia, Laos, China, Taiwan, Philippines and Japan ( Hebauer, 1995b; Hansen, 1999). Singapore!

Ecology. – A lentic species living in very shallow water at the edge of exposed, well-vegetated ponds, pools, puddles and slow-flowing streams and ditches, in primary and cultivated areas very often in temporary habitats. The species is attracted to light and colonise a wide variety of habitats ( Fernando, 1961).

Fernando, C. H., 1961. Notes on Aquatic Insects caught at Light in Malaya with a Discussion of their Distribution and Dispersal. Bulletin of the National Museum, Singapore, 32 (1963): 80 - 90.

Fernando, C. H., 1964. Notes on aquatic insects colonizing an isolated pond in Mawai, Johore. Bulletin of the National Museum, Singapore, 30: 19 - 31.

Hansen, M., 1999. Hydrophiloidea (s. str.) (Coleoptera). In: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 2. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 416 pp.

Hebauer, F., 1995 b. Neues zu den Acidocerina Hansen (Helocharae d'Orchymont) der indomalaiischen Region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae). Acta Coleopterologica, 11 (3): 3 - 14.

Sharp, D., 1890. On some aquatic Coleoptera from Ceylon. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1890: 339 - 359.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Helochares