Berosus fairmairei Zaitzev, 1908

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 123

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13245242

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scientific name

Berosus fairmairei Zaitzev, 1908
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Berosus fairmairei Zaitzev, 1908 View in CoL

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Berosus acutispina Fairmaire, 1889: 336 View in CoL .

Berosus fairmairei Zaitzev, 1908: 355 View in CoL ; Schödl, 1992: 146; Hansen, 1999: 76, and references therein.

Material examined. – 10 specimens - Sungai Buloh – 7 ex., muddy pool 2, 4 Dec.1990, coll. C. M. Yang & K. L. Yeo ( ZRC) ; 3 ex., 18 Nov.1990, coll. H. K. Lua ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Widespread and common species. East Palearctic and Oriental realms ( Schödl, 1992; Hansen, 1999). Singapore!

Ecology. – A lentic species which occurs in shallow and exposed ponds, puddles and ditches rich in aquatic vegetation and plant debris.

Fairmaire, L., 1889. Descriptions de Coleopteres de l'Indo-Chine. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (6) 8 (1888): 333 - 378.

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

Schodl, S., 1992. Revision der Gattung Berosus Leach 2. Teil: Die orientalischen Arten der Untergattung Enoplurus (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 62: 137 - 164.

Zaitzev, F. A., 1908. Catalogue des Coleopteres aquatiques des familles Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Cyathoceridae, Heteroceridae et Hydrophilidae. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 38: 1 - 355.

Gallery Image

Figs. 24-30. 24. Cybister sugillatus Erichsin, 1834 (Fam. Dytiscidae, 22.0 mm); 25 Hydrocanthus indicus Wehncke, 1876 (Fam. Noteridae, 4.5 mm); 26. Spercheus stangli Schwarz & Barber, 1917 (Fam. Spercheidae, 4.2 mm); 27. Berosus fairmairei Zaitzev, 1908 (Fam. Hydrophilidae, 4.5 mm); 28. Amphiops mater sumatrensis (Sharp, 1873) (Fam. Hydrophilidae, 3.5 mm); 29. Helochares pallens (MacLeay, 1825) (Fam. Hydrophilidae, 3.1 mm);30. Hydrophilus cavisternum Bedel, 1891 (Fam. Hydrophilidae, 32.0 mm).

ZRC

Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Hydrophilidae

Genus

Berosus