Gyrinus (Gyrinus) caspius Ménetries, 1832

Van Vondel, Bernhard J., Ostovan, Hadi & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated checklist of Iranian Myxophaga (Hydroscaphidae, Sphaeriusidae) and Adephaga (Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae, Rhysodidae) (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 4216 (3), pp. 225-246 : 230

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scientific name	Gyrinus (Gyrinus) caspius Ménetries, 1832
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Gyrinus elongatus Aubé, 1838 .

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan ( Atamehr 2002; Atamehr et al. 2004), Golestan ( Ochs 1953), Guilan ( Bodemeyer 1927; Guéorguiev 1965c; Kamali 2008), Mazandaran ( Ochs 1953; Legros 1972).

General distribution. Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, China (Xinjiang) , Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Central and South European Territory) , Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkey, former Yugoslavia ( Mazzoldi 2003), Iran ( Guéorguiev 1981; Mazzoldi 2003; Shaverdo 2003; Darilmaz & Kiyak 2006; Kiyak et al. 2006).

Comments. Puddles and slowly flowing streams; fresh and brackish water (Kiyak et al. 2006). Bodemeyer (1927) reports this species from a brooklet in the Elbruz Mountains.

References

Atamehr, A. (2002) A faunistical study of aquatic Coleoptera in Tabriz region, Iran and bioecological study on richness species. Ph. D. thesis, Islamic Azad University, 194 pp.

Atamehr, A., Kamali, K. & Ostovan, H. (2004) Fauna of aquatic beetles in Tabriz region. Proceedings of 16 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 123 pp.

Bodemeyer, B. von. (1927) Ueber meine entomologischen Reisen nach Kleinasien (1911), Ost-Sibirien, Schilka und Amur (1912), Tunis, Oasis Gafsa, Khroumerie (1913) und Iran, Elbursgebirge (1914). Vol. 1. Kleinasien. Stuttgart: A. Kernen, 85 pp.

Gueorguiev, V. B. (1965 c) Sur la faune des coleopteres hydrocanthares d'Iran. Bulletin de l'Institut de Zoologie et Musee, Academie Bulgare des Sciences, 19, 101 - 117.

Gueorguiev, V. B. (1981) Resultat de L'expedition zoologique du musee national de Prague en Turquie Coleoptera: Haliplidae, Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 40, 399 - 424.

Kamali, E. (2008) Identification of aquatic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) and family biotic index in Astara Rivers, Gilan province, Iran. Ph. D thesis, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, 154 pp.

Legros, C. (1972) Contribution a la faune de l'Iran. 23. Coleopteres Hydrocanthares. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N. S.), 8 (3), 573 - 578.

Mazzoldi, P. (2003) Family Gyrinidae. In: Lobl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Stenstrup, Denmark (Apollo Books), pp. 26 - 30. [819 pp.]

Ochs, G. (1953) Ergebnisse der Osterreichischen Iran-Expedition 1949 / 50: Gyrinidae (Coleoptera). Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 162, 217 - 225.

Shaverdo, H. V. (2003) Adephagous water beetles of Armenia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Gyrinidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae). Koleopterologische Rundschau, 73, 31 - 42.