Berosus pulchellus MacLeay, 1825

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 124

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scientific name

Berosus pulchellus MacLeay, 1825
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Berosus pulchellus MacLeay, 1825 View in CoL

Berosus pulchellus MacLeay, 1825: 35 View in CoL . Berosus pubescens Mulsant & Rey, 1859: 61 View in CoL . Berosus decrescens Walker, 1859: 258 View in CoL . Berosus vestitus Sharp, 1884: 456 View in CoL . Berosus pulchellus MacLeay View in CoL - Knisch, 1924b: 273; Yano et al.,

1983a: 19; Schödl, 1993: 215; Hansen, 1999: 92, and references therein. Berosus sp. : Yang, 1991: 95.

Material examined. – 14 specimens – Central catchment area - 7 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest , 23 Nov.1990, coll. H. K. Lua ( ZRC) ; 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest , y 794 D, coll. K. L. Yeo ( ZRC) . Sungai Buloh – 5 ex., 18 Nov.1990, coll. H. K. Lua ( ZRC) ; 1 ex., 19 Dec.1990, coll. K. L. Yeo ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Southern Iran, Nepal, Oriental Region, Northern Australia and Japan ( Schödl, 1993; Hansen, 1999). Singapore!

Ecology. – A lentic species which occurs in shallow and exposed ponds, slow-flowing streams and ditches. In Sri Lanka, Japan and Indonesia [Bali] B. pulchellus was collected in paddy fields ( Yano et al., 1983a; Balke & Hendrich pers. observ.).

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

Knisch, A., 1924 b. Hydrophilidae. In: Junk, W. & S. Schenkling (eds.), Coleopterorum Catatalogus, Berlin, 79: 1 - 306.

MacLeay, W. S., 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an Attempt to Illustrate the Primary Affinities and Apologies of the Insects collected in Java by T. Horsfield. Vol. I. London, XII + 150 pp.

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.

Sharp, D., 1884. The Water Beetles of Japan. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 4: 439 - 464.

Walker, F., 1859. XXVII. Characters of some apparently undescribed Ceylon Insects. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 3 (3): 259.

Yang, C. M., 1991. Insects. In: Ng, P. K. L. (ed.), A Guide to Freshwater Life in Singapore. Singapore Science Centre. Pp. 74 - 113.

Yano, K., Y. I. Chu & M. Sato, 1983 a. Faunal and biological studies on the insects of paddy fields in Asia. XI. Records on Aquatic Coleoptera from paddy water in the world. Chinese Journal of Entomology, 3 (1): 15 - 31.

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Berosus