Berosini Mulsant, 1844

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Tribe Berosini Mulsant, 1844

Genus Berosus Leach, 1817

Subgenus Berosus Leach, 1817

3– Berosus ( Berosus) affinis Brullé, 1835 Berosus affinis Brullé 1835: 285 Type locality: France ( Frankreich) ( Schödl 1993). [According to Hansen (1999), no type locality was given]. Description: Schödl 1993: 205. Geographic distribution: PAL; NV. References: Schödl 1993; Salman 1996; Hebauer 1997, 2006; Hansen 1999, 2004; Bouzid and İncekara 2006; Karaouzas and İncekara 2011; Fikáček et al. 2015; Przewoźny and Fikáček 2016.

4– Berosus ( Berosus) corrugatus Régimbart, 1906 Berosus corrugatus Régimbart 1906: 266

Type locality: Kibwezi ( Wa-Kamba) ( Kenya) .

Description: Schödl 1995: 88.

Geographic distribution: AFR, PAL; NV.

References: Schödl 1993, 1995; Hebauer 1997; Hansen 1999; Hebauer 2006.

Remarks. Berosus corrugatus is an African species widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa (not in Madagascar) and reaching the southern Palearctic region along the Nile River ( Schödl 1995; Fikáček et al. 2012). Fikáček et al. (2015) did not include the Egyptian distribution of this species in a catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera .