Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps ( Fabricius, 1801 )

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Berosus (Berosus) nigriceps ( Fabricius, 1801)

Hydrophilus nigriceps Fabricius, 1801: 254 .

Paraberosus melanocephalus Kuwert, 1890a: 113 .

Berosus immaculicollis Fairmaire, 1892: 88 .

Berosus (s.str.) nigriceps : d’Orchymont 1933: 310; d’Orchymont 1937c: 40; Schödl 1993: 213, figs., 11a, b, 42; Hansen 1999a: 90; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 43; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Fikáček et al. 2010: 137, pl. 2; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 38; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 390; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Ghosh et al. 2021: 614; Przewoźny 2022: 11.

Type locality: East India [“ India orientali”] ( Schödl 1993) .

Distribution in India: Delhi, Himachal Pradesh (Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Madhya Pradesh (Panna

National Park), Odisha ( Chilika Lake ) , Rajasthan ( Bharatpur , Sikar) , Sikkim (Rongpo), Tamil Nadu ( Tharangambadi

“ Tranquebar ”), Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Mussorie), and Uttar Pradesh (Bareilly, Shahjahanpur, Etah,

Rampur, Aligarh, Hardoi).

Global distribution: Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Cape Verde Island, Chad, Democratic Republic of the

Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania,

Namibia, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania,

Yemen, and Zimbabwe.