Oosternum sharpi Hansen, 1999c

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 : 56

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14388683
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scientific name	Oosternum sharpi Hansen, 1999c
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Oosternum sharpi Hansen, 1999c View in CoL

Oosternum sharpi Hansen, 1999c: 242 View in CoL ; Hansen 1999a: 302; Fikáček et al. 2015c: 72; Przewoźny, 2022: 36.

Type locality: Guatemala ( Hansen 1999a).

Distribution in India: Uttarakhand (Kumaon: Sarju Valley).

Global distribution: Cuba, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal (Azores Island), Sri Lanka, United States of America (Hawaiian Island), and Venezuela.

Remarks: Hansen (1999a) tentatively reported the presence of this species in India. Mukhopadhyay (2010: 328) subsequently listed it from Uttarakhand state as Oosternum costatum Sharp, 1882 . However, Oosternum costatum is a homonym and the replacement name for Oosternum costatum Sharp is Oosternum sharpi .

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
SuperFamily	Hydrophiloidea
Family	Hydrophilidae
SubFamily	Sphaeridiinae
Tribe	Megasternini
SubTribe	Oosternina
Genus	Oosternum