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
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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.

References

Darilmaz MC, Kiyak S. 2011. A study on the family Spercheidae (Coleoptera) from Turkey. Turk J Zool. 35: 441 - 444.

Hansen M. 1991. The Hydrophiloid beetles. Phylogeny, classification and a revision of genera (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea). Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

Hebauer F. 1997. Revision der arten der Familie Spercheidae Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Hydrophiloidea). Entomol Bl Biol Syst Kaefer. 93: 9 - 42.