Copelatus minutissimus Balfour-Browne, 1939
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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244881 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13245200 |
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Copelatus minutissimus Balfour-Browne, 1939 |
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Copelatus minutissimus Balfour-Browne, 1939 View in CoL
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Copelatus minutissimus Balfour-Browne, 1939a: 79 View in CoL ; Guéorguiev, 1968: 22; Vazirani, 1970: 315; 1977: 56; Balke, 1994: 32; Balke et al., 1999: 325; Nilsson, 2001: 70.
Material examined. – Type material: 1 male: “ Singapore ” ( BMNH) . Additional material: 2 specimens - Central catchment area - 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest , Range II Training Shed, Transect “E”, UV Light Trap, 22 May.1992, NS 10d, coll. H. K. Lua & K. Lim ( ZRC) ; 1 ex., Nee Soon Swamp Forest , 26 Aug.1993, y 840, coll. M. Balke, Murphy & C. M. Yang ( ZRC) .
Distribution. – India [Orissa] needs to be confirmed, Malaysia ( Vazirani, 1977), Indonesia: Kalimantan, Sumatra (Hendrich vid.), Thailand ( Balfour-Browne, 1939a), Vietnam (in coll. Balke & Hendrich) and Singapore ( Balke, 1994; Balke et al., 1999).
Ecology. – A forest species which occurs among leaf litter, roots and submerged plants of very small, temporary, shallow puddles in or near forested areas. This species is confined to the forests of the Central Catchment Area.
Balfour-Browne, J., 1939 a. On Copelatus Erichson and Leiopterus Stephens (Col. Dytiscidae) with description of new species. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 88 (2): 57 - 88.
Balke, M., 1994. Regenwald in der Stadt. Okowerkmagazin, Berlin 8 (12): 32 - 34.
Gueorguiev, V., 1968. Essai de classification des Coleopteres Dytiscidae, Tribus Copelatini (Colymbetinae). Izvestija na Zoologitjeskija Institut s Musei Sofia, 28: 5 - 45.
Nilsson, A. N., 2001. Dytiscidae (Coleoptera). In: World Catalogue of Insects Volume 3. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, Denmark, 395 pp.
Vazirani, T. G., 1970. Contribution to the study of aquatic beetles (Coleoptera) V. A review of Hydroporinae: Dytiscidae in part, from India. Oriental Insects, 4 (1): 93 - 129.
Vazirani, T. G., 1977. Catalogue of Oriental Dytiscidae. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper, 6: ii + 111 pp.
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Zoological Reference Collection, National University of Singapore |
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Copelatus minutissimus Balfour-Browne, 1939
Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael 2004 |
Copelatus minutissimus
Nilsson, A 2001: 70 |
Balke, M 1994: 32 |
Vazirani, T 1977: 56 |
Vazirani, T 1970: 315 |
Gueorguiev, V 1968: 22 |
Balfour-Browne, J 1939: 79 |