Amphiops simplex Sharp, 1890: 354 Balfour-Browne 1939c: 306 Hansen 1999a: 107 A Catalogue of Indian Hydrophiloidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Gupta, Devanshu Sonali, Shipra Ghosh, Sujit Kumar Das, Priyanka Jaiswal, Deepa Chandra, Kailash Zootaxa 2024 2024-12-06 5546 1 1 92 66G9F Sharp, 1890 Sharp 1890 [151,506,1883,1910] Insecta Hydrophilidae Amphiops Animalia Coleoptera 11 12 Arthropoda species simplex      Amphiops simplex Sharp, 1890: 354;  Balfour-Browne 1939c: 306, fig., 11a;  Hansen 1999a: 107; Biswas & Mukhopadhyay 1995: 161; Mukhopadhyay & Sengupta 2004: 456; Ghosh 2011c: 161; Das et al. 2014: 458; Mukhopadhyay 2015: 391; Devi et al. 2017: 10; Ghosh et al.2018b: 28; Ghosh et al. 2021: 615; Ghosh et al. 2023: 161.    Typelocality: Sri Lanka, Colombo ( Hansen 1999a).   Distribution in India: Himachal Pradesh(Sirmour, Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary), Manipur(Loktak Lake, Keibul– Lamjo National Park, Bishnupur, Imphal), Odisha, Puducherry, Uttar Pradesh(Shahjahanpur, Sandi Bird Sanctuary), and West Bengal(Sunderban Biosphere Reserve, Kolkata).  Global distribution: Indiaand Sri Lanka.