Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792 )

Gupta, Devanshu, Sonali, Shipra, Ghosh, Sujit Kumar, Das, Priyanka, Jaiswal, Deepa & Chandra, Kailash, 2024, A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5546 (1), pp. 1-92 : 32-33

Sternolophus rufipes ( Fabricius, 1792)

Hydrophilus rufipes Fabricius, 1792: 183 . Sternolophus (s. str.) rufipes : Laporte 1840: 54; d’Orchymont 1932a: 706; d’Orchymont 1937c: 39; Vazirani 1953: 427; Satô 1972b: 53; Jeyasingam et al. 1974: 287; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 159; Biswas et al. 1997: 338; Hansen 1999a: 208; Biswas 2000: 102; Mukhopadhyay et al. 2000: 90; Ghosh et al. 2000: 48; Khan & Ghosh 2001: 71; Biswas 2002: 74; Hebauer 2002: 26; Mukhopadhyay & Ghosh, 2003: 16; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2003: 41; Hansen 2004: 55; Hendrich et al. 2004: 129; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 455; Chatterjee et al. 2004: 96; Kazmi & Ramamurthy 2004: 1447; Nandi et al. 2004: 54; Hebauer & Ryndevich 2005: 47; Mukhopadhyay 2007: 412; Chandra 2008: 171; Ghosh et al. 2010: 94; Mukhopadhyay, 2010: 332; Short 2010a: 26–27, 29; Ghosh 2011a: 24; Ghosh 2011b: 125; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Tara et al. 2011: 258; Thakare & Zade 2011: 67; Sharma & Bano 2012: 500; Ghosh & Hegde 2013a: 64; Ghosh & Hegde 2013b: 22; Ghosh & Mandal 2013: 94; Das et al. 2014: 458; Ghosh 2014: 56; Ghosh et al. 2014: 109; Ghosh & Mitra 2014: 67; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 392; Ghosh et al. 2015a: 107; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 52; Ghosh & Das 2016: 436; Ghosh et al. 2016: 23; Saroj 2017: 47; Nasserzadeh & Komarek 2017: 237, figs., 17, 28, 30, 41, 56, 64; Ghosh et al. 2018a: 441; Ghosh et al. 2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2020: 231; Ghosh et al. 2021: 616; Anamika et al. 2021: 185; Liu et al. 2021a: 51; Liu et al. 2021b: 306; Chakradhari & Tiwari 2022: 15; Ghosh 2022: 491; Ghosh & Gupta 2022: 117; Przewoźny 2022: 21; Deb et al. 2023: 24047; Shankar et al. 2024: 462; Sonali et al. 2024: 424; Sheth et al. 2024: 24862.

Tropisternus mergus Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844: 514 .

Sternolophus fulvipes Motschulsky, 1854: 45 .

Type locality: China ( Hansen 1999a) .

Distribution in India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Great Nicobar Island), Andhra Pradesh (Prakasamm, Kurnool, Vishakapattanam, Nellore, Chittoor), Assam (Nameri National Park Tezpur), Bihar (Kobar Lake), Chhattisgarh (Raipur, Jagdalpur), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Gujarat (Mehsana), Himachal Pradesh (Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary, Kangra), Haryana (Gurgaon), Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu), Jharkhand, Kerala, Lakashadeep (Agatti, Minicoy), Maharashtra (Melghat Tiger Reserve, Pune, Nashik, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg), Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya (East Garo Hills), Manipur (Loktak Lake, Bishnupur, Churachandpur, Senapati), Odisha (Satkshia and Basipally Wildlife Sanctuary, Chilika Lake), Punjab, Rajasthan (Jodhpur, Kailana Lake, Bikaner), Sikkim (Rongpo, Jorethang), Tamil Nadu (Madurai), Telangana (Adilabad), Tripura (Sonamura, Rudrasagar), Uttar Pradesh (Agra, Aligarh, Varanasi, Ballia, Etawah, Hardoi, Rampur, Sultanpur, Shahjahanpur, Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Surhatal Wildlife Sanctuary, Sandi Bird Sanctuary), Uttarakhand (Kumaon, Bhimtal, Baijnath, Dehradun, Tehri, Bageshwar, Srinagar, Asan Wetland), Tamil Nadu (Salem), West Bengal (Asansol, Berhampore, Alipurduar, East Midnapore, Purulia, Khargpur, Kolkata, Sagar Island, Buxa Tiger Reserve, Sunderban Biosphere Reserve).

Global distribution: Widespread and common throughout Southeast Asia: Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.