SPERCHEIDAE Erichson, 1837

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 : 159

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2015.1059515
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4336992
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/233B9975-FF9D-F952-FE5F-FF3EFC49FE6A
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	SPERCHEIDAE Erichson
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Family SPERCHEIDAE Erichson View in CoL

The family Spercheidae is a homogeneous group of beetles composed of only one genus, Spercheus Kugelann. Recent papers mention that this family has 18 species, most of them from the Ethiopian and Oriental zoogeographic regions ( Hansen 1991; Hebauer 1997; Darilmaz and Kıyak 2011).

Until now, only a single Oriental subspecies, Spercheus belli belli , has been recorded in Pakistan ( Hebauer 1997). The species is recorded here also for Pakistan.