Copelatus tenebrosus Régimbart, 1880

Hendrich, Lars & Balke, Michael, 2004, Aquatic Coleoptera Of Singapore: Species Richness, Ecology And Conservation #, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1), pp. 97-145 : 118

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13244881
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13245202
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scientific name	Copelatus tenebrosus Régimbart, 1880
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Copelatus tenebrosus Régimbart, 1880 View in CoL

Copelatus tenebrosus Régimbart, 1880: 210 View in CoL ; Zimmermann, 1919a: 217; 1920: 143; Fernando, 1964: 87; Guéorguiev, 1968: 23; Vazirani, 1970: 317; 1977: 57; Yano et al., 1983b: 107; Hendrich & Balke, 1995: 44; Nilsson, 2001: 71.

Material examined. – 3 specimens – 1 ex., Singapore, 10 Jan.1972, T3751, coll. Gräf ( CHF). Sungai Buloh - 2 ex., Nature Park , shallow pool, No.1, 4 Dec.1990, coll. C. M. Yang & K. L. Yeo ( ZRC) .

Distribution. – Northern Australia, India, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia [Sumatra, Java, Bali], Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam ( Zimmermann, 1920; Vazirani, 1977; Watts, 1978; Hendrich & Balke, 1995). Singapore!

Ecology. – Copelatus tenebrosus inhabits different kinds of standing waters in open, exposed areas, such as pools, ponds and irrigation ditches. The species is often attracted to light and is the most common species of the genus can be found in deforested and cultivated areas in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and in the Philippines it was also recorded from paddy fields ( Yano et al., 1983b; Hendrich & Balke, 1995).