Helophoridae, Leach, 1815

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 : 60

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5546.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14640776

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scientific name

Helophoridae
status

 

Family Helophoridae View in CoL :

This monotypic family includes eight species in two subgenera ( Lihelophorus Zaitzev and Rhopalohelophorus Kuwert ) from India, accounting for 4.0% of the globally reported species (200) ( Tables 1 View TABLE 1 , 2 View TABLE 2 ). d’Orchymont (1926a) described the maximum number of three species, followed by Semenov (1900a) one species, Zaitzev (1908b) one species, Angus (1970 a, 1995) two species, and with the most recent description by Angus et al. (2016). Of the eight Indian species, six are reported from the Cold Desert of Ladakh, three from the Western and North–West Himalayas and one from the Northeast and Semi–Arid regions. Helophorus (Thaumhelophorus) inexpectatus Angus has only been reported from India. The other species in the genus are distributed in Palearctic countries.

Angus, R. B. (1970 a) A revision of the beetles of the genus Helophorus F. (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) subgenera Orphelophorus d'Orchymont, Gephelophorus Sharp and Meghelophorus Kuwert. Acta Zoologica Fennica, 129, 1 - 62.

Angus, R. B., Jia, F. - L., Chen, Z. - N., Zhan, Y., Vondracek, D. & Fikacek, M. (2016) Taxonomy, larval morphology and cytogenetics of Lihelophorus, the Tibetan endemic subgenus of Helophorus (Coleoptera: Hydrophiloidea). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 56 (1), 109 - 148. [https: // www. aemnp. eu / data / article- 1619 / 1600 - 56 _ 1 _ 109. pdf]

d'Orchymont, A. (1926 a) Contribution a l'etude des Hydrophilides V. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 66, 91 - 106.

Jach, M. A. (1995) Hydrochidae (Coleoptera). In: Jach, M. A. & Ji, L. (Eds.), Water Beetles of China. Vol. 1. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft in Osterreich and Wiener Coleopterologenverein, Vienna, pp. 181 - 183. [https: // www. zobodat. at / pdf / WB-China _ 1 _ 0181 - 0183. pdf]

Semenov, A. P. (1900 a) Coleoptera asiatica nova. X. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 34, 577 - 605. [1899 - 1900]

Zaitzev, F. A. (1908 b) Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Wasserkafer von Chinesisch - Centralasien. Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 13, 417 - 426.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

SuperFamily

Hydrophiloidea

Family

Helophoridae