Patrus Aubé, 1838

Darilmaz, Mustafa C. & Ahmed, Zubair, 2015, Aquatic Coleoptera from Pakistan: faunistic and zoogeographical contribution (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Dytiscidae: Hydrophilidae), Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 149-162 : 152

** Genus Patrus Aubé

This genus occurs from Iran east to southern China and Japan, and south to New Guinea. It does not appear to occur in Australia. There is the unusual occurrence of a single species in central Africa [ Patrus africanus (Ochs) ]. Elevation of this subgenus of Orectochilus to genus rank results in about 200 valid species names associated with this genus, though it has not been comprehensively revised ( Miller and Bergsten 2012).

Until now, no species of this genus was known from Pakistan ( Mazzoldi 2003). In this study, Patrus haemorrhous is the first representative from Pakistan.